Life as of 11/27

Considering that I don't even remember when the last time I posted on here was, I guess I'll just start typing.

Right now, it's 3:00 AM and I'm playing World of Warcraft. What a surprise. But I did all the homework I needed to do, and I'm not tired... and I just need to go get another tailoring skill set! And then another level, then maybe a quest... then I'll be done. Assuming, of course, that there are no more quests to do. Yeah right. So after this, I think I should probably go to bed.

Life has been good. Thanksgiving was nice - we got together with all the other Wagner cousins this year, in Troy, MI. My grandparents had recently moved to a half-assisted living apartment, but their house hasn't been sold yet, so we stayed there. It was really weird without my grandparents and half the furniture. We went to visit the new apartment, and Grandma was there almost crying about wanting to go back and missing the house (if I had lived somewhere for like 40 years, I guess I would miss it too.) Apparently, she had some weird thing go on the day before, with her diabetes, so she had another nostalgic episode then, but she forget that she did, so she had to have another one. Or something like that. But anyway, yeah.

And then we drove back (and it took us an hour longer than it was supposed to because we kept looking for a dairy queen, but never found one) and then I went to a LAN party at Ben's house with 10 other people. Great fun, especially in Call of Duty 2... though Mike wins too much. (or maybe it's just that I lose too much...) And that lasted until Saturday night, with several trips to restaurants and stores and whatever else.

And then tomorrow is school again, after the 5 day break. *grumbles* But only 5 more days of classes - I could get used to this college schedule. Then finals, but they should be easy. Hopefully.

Oh yeah, one more item of business...
My boss at the library has resigned to go to some other job or something. Since I don't have the required degree (yet) and I don't have time to work for 38 hours/week, I can't take his place... but, I'm really excited (and worried, anxious, nervous, etc) to see who my new boss will be. And then there will be a couple weeks when I'm the only technology employee there, so I'll be in charge... not that I'll actually have to do very much important stuff, but it'll still be kinda fun, as long as nothing important breaks.

Stupid Windows; Social Life

Windows makes fast computers so dull and slow and stupid. I've been spending the majority of the last week replacing defective parts, trying to get windows to recognize everything correctly, and now I'm just reinstalling completely. And I'm doing all of this with my 120-day trial version of XP. But, now that I think about it, I'm going to probably (as much as I hate to say this...) upgrade to Vista when it comes out, so 120 days will be plenty for that.

And I've actually had something of a social life mixed in there, too. Last night, I went to a play put on by some Walsh students with Sarah and Mrs. Chiavaroli. (That is, not my sister Sarah, the other one. Or something.) It was a comedy, "Someone Save my Baby Ruth"... and it was all about a candy shop! (my kind of play...) They threw candy at the audience, but not nearly enough by my standards. Of course, if I had been in charge, they would be throwing five-pound bags at everyone, abundantly. But oh well.

And then tonight, Michelle and Brian and I went to see "Stranger than Fiction." Good funny movie, though at parts it seems like it's switching back and forth between comedy, drama, and, I don't know, horror or something. Or maybe that was just because there were so many preview for horror movies. I'll say this much... after seeing this movie, I'm once again reminded of how much can be different if your watch is a couple minutes off. (This was one of the themes of the movie). It's like, you leave to go somewhere 30 seconds later than you normally would, and as a result you aren't in the way of the car with no brakes, or something random like that. Gack, so mind-boggling. If I did everything 30 seconds earlier or later than I would otherwise, it's just crazy to think about what big things could potentially happen as a result of that difference. Or something. Oh well, I guess at times like this, I'll just trust that God knows what's going on.

Whee, XP install is done. Time to go to www.getfirefox.com - you know, can't have the new computer being contaminated with spyware and all that.

New computer... again?

So, I got around to ordering my next gaming PC. Yeah, I know I just bought a car a month ago, and a laptop 2 months ago, but... yeah. I'm done buying big stuff now. (Or at least that's what I claim at the moment)

For anyone who cares, here are the numbers:
Intel Core 2 Duo (Conroe) at 2.4 GHz
4x512 MB of DDR2 800 Corsair RAM
eVGA 512 MB nVidia GeForce 7950GT Graphics Card
3x160 GB SATA HD (for a RAID configuration)
Case is a "Cooler Master Ammo 533" (it looks like something you'd carry a weapon in, pretty much)
And, 500 watt Antec power supply

And, Newegg.com is the best thing ever.