Dust Raven

Okay, so about that dressing up bit… Not going well. Last week ended with me feeling a lot better then throwing my back out. This week ends with my back still hurting and the little handicapped thingy I have for the car falling apart. They really don’t make those with Phoenix weather in mind… Anyway, I still feel like crap.

Also, finances aren’t so good. Those are at least improving. Turns out that DeAnna will not soon be gainfully employed. At least not where I work. I’m not sure what happened but she didn’t make the cut. We’re still not sure if she can reapply, but we’re not waiting. She’s headed back into the field of education. This makes sense since she has a degree in that. Granted, she can’t teach classroom stuff, but there are lots of positions at a school and she can get a feel for the system and see if it’s really what she wants to finish college prepared to do.

Now yesterday I got a call of the electric company and they wanted to shut off the power. Something about me not paying the bill. This puts a bit of a damper on my mood, let alone my shopping plans. You see, I get my big paycheck next week. This week, I apparently get just enough to pay the past due on the electric bill. So no shopping yet… I really hope the stuff I want to buy people for Christmas is still there. If not, everybody is getting a bag of 250 tea-light candles from Wal-mart.

Financial Aid has finally arrived! I can buy the new supercomputer and monitor!

And I have. Damn this thing is nice… It has everything. Intel® Core(TM)2 Duo Desktop processor, 400 GB hard drive, 2 GB PC2-4200 DDR2 SDRAM, XP Media, TV turner, and a HUGE monitor (22″ widescreen). I love this thing! Of course, there were some stalls and stumbles getting the damn thing. For starters, when I went to pick it up on Thursday night, I found out my bank card has a per day spending limit that wasn’t even close to the price tag. After going back the next day with my check book, I got everything home to find out the vga cable wasn’t in the box with the monitor. So after yet another trip to the store, I got my cable, got it home and got everything hooked up.

And then we couldn’t port the files over from the old computer. Apparently the op sys is dead, or at least mortally wounded. Can’t boot up the old computer and keep it running long enough to move the files through the network; can’t hook up the drive to the new computer because it’s too old; can’t slap a usb kit on the drive and hook it up because there’s an op sys problem… But I can reformat the damn drive and erase everything just fine! I’m gonna try getting a boot disk and seeing if I can get the computer up long enough to burn everything to DVD and move it over that way. If that doesn’t work, I got a friend with a computer of the same model I might be able to install the drive as a slave and copy things that way. I can hope.