Happy Lunar New Year!  Year of the Dragon~  Hopefully this will be a good year for everyone, myself and other dragons in particular

Let’s see, I got my computer early, but the enclosure just came Wednesday.  I’ve been off and on transferring files to my new compy but there’s so much that I haven’t decided what I want on this hard drive.  Then again it really doesn’t matter, it isn’t like I could take a desktop on vacation  At least I have my pictures, save data and other files back~ Not to mention another external!

I broke down and bought the monitor

I’m loving this computer ♥ (I can do alt characters now!) Started a new game for DA2 and it’s sooo nice!  I’ll have to see how high I can set the graphics quality and have it run smoothly.  Wish I could afford Skyrim, but it can wait.  Been obsessing over Beat Hazard anyway.  Oh and Amnesia is so scary!  I made it to the desk with the note and had to take a break.  Haven’t touched it since…  Maybe tonight?  But it reminds me of a horror-based Myst, it seems like the player will have to make a decision at the end but there won’t be a “green book” to pick. Anyway, I have to keep a lamp on or else I can’t see the keyboard.

Ohkay. Classes.  Art, I still feel like I don’t know what I’m doing.  Just turned in our first project yesterday (we haven’t gotten the first assignment back yet) and did a class critique.  Apparently no one had anything they would change about mine, or criticism for that matter. But I probably looked terrified so maybe no one wanted to say that it needs work.  I dunno, just gonna try to make it through the semester. Math isn’t too much better, I understand the concepts, I can do the homework, but for the take home quiz I had to look everything up.  It seems like I can’t remember what I learned, maybe that’s what studying is for…

Now site related stuff.  I was going to make a new layout, but I think I’ll wait.  Seeing that the art class I’m taking it the pre-req for graphic design classes, maybe I’ll learn some stuff I can apply to a layout.  I’m not procrastinating updating the coding I swear!  But one thing math is doing for me is re-kindiling my desire to learn a web programming language.  Still have no idea what I’d use it for, but Javascript and PHP (and MySQL) are sure to come in handy.  Just need to decide which one to learn first and find some good tutorials.  Also gonna try and get that Sozai site up next month, I wanted to get it up before Chinese New Year and have some dragon stuff, but with my laptop dying and just getting my files back that didn’t happen.  Just need to figure out some Valentines Day (and SAD ) stuff.  I have the layout ready to go, but I really want to make it in frames.  It makes more sense to me, but professionally it’s a big no-no.  Not that I’m professional to begin with, but I should try to be.  Maybe that’ll be my pet project, where I can break as many rules as I want!

Long post is long. And my server time is 5 minutes slow >:(

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First, all in all, the Holidays went well.  My sister and her boyfriend celebrated Christmas with us and he’s a pretty nice guy.  It took some adjusting on my part, as I’m used to being alone most of the time, and by the time that happened they had left.  *sigh*

And on to the rant.  A couple days before my sister left, my laptop spontaneously stopped working.  Put it to sleep and the next morning it wouldn’t really come back on.  I mean, the fan was running and the disc drive kept trying read a disc that wasn’t there, but the screen didn’t turn on and pressing buttons (ctrl+alt+del) did nothing.  Took it into a computer repair place and found out the motherboard died.  And even if it was replaced the same problem could happen again, apparently HP didn’t issue a recall or a fix.  Peachy.  I was advised to get a Dell or Toshiba, and I made the decision that it’ll be a desktop this time.  I’m getting sick of laptops dying on me with no way to fix them!

Fortunately I had been saving for a trip and my parents are helping me out so I was able to afford a Dell XPS without a screen.  The processor is great but the graphics card is slightly less then mediocre (according to serious gamers).  It should be a big step up from my, at least, 2 year old laptop though.  I’m considering biting the bullet and using the last of my savings on a screen, Best Buy has one on sale for $100.  We have an old tube screen I can use but the clarity sucks.  Can you tell how spoiled I am?  Anyway, it’s due to arrive on the 24th or so.

In other news I had my first day of class in 2 years yesterday.  I’m not sure I’m ready but I think that’s anxiety talking.  I’m just taking an art class and pre-calc so it shouldn’t be that bad.  Though the art prof seems critical, so what if the colors aren’t fully filled in?  They may have wanted a light shade.  Also not looking forward to the 2 hour gap between classes, I thought I’d have my laptop when I scheduled but now it’s almost unbearable.  Maybe it’ll get better when I have school work to do.

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