So I got a new job a few months ago and met some new people. One of which was selling his '06 spec gaming rig; well most of it. My machine is pretty ancient. put it this way; when i bought it the 20GB hard drive was considered huge. This new set-up I bought which is a motherboard, 2 ram cards, two video cards, 4 fans and a power supply is a Huge jump in performance for me. the motherboard will be the first I have ever owned that supports dual video cards and had a multi core processor. so yeah; I mentioned this is a HUGE jump in performance for me right? I'm so excited to get his machine up and running, today is pay day and i have direct deposit. I transfered some money to my paypal account and am going to hit up tigerdirect.com to knock some items off my wish list. essentials like descent HDD and a monitor.

i currently have two significant hurdles to my completion of the system. A legitimate OS and a high performance internet connection. on my old system, I had windows XP but got screwed when i took it in for a repain a while back and for some reason when i booted up i got a notice sayin my version of windows was counterfit. I wasn't able to address this as i had moved and it wasn't viable to deal with the people (who MAY have been) responsible for screwing that up. So, I may have to purchase a new windows disc. I may either stick with XP or go for 7, not sure yet as my other friend from work says that he has encountered some game related issues with 7 and recommends XP to be safe.

Next issue is an ISP. I'm currently connected (sort of) with a verizon wifi card. this will not work out when my rig is up and running and i'm ready to go game-a-thon my brains out since it only allows 5gigs of data transfer per month. yeah, I'll probab;y max and double that upon logging in. My most obvious remedy to this is to get broadband internet through my cable company. I do not currently have a phone line in the apartment (which they require) but i don't see that as a big problem. I have yet to talk to them about the upgrade as the cable isn't in my name and the person who's it is in seems to be taking thier sweet time about it.

these hurdles aren't impossible walls by any means but they WILL require some patience to overcome and one thing that i lack when i'm excited about getting something rolling, furthermore done; is patience. Not that I'm going to go ape nuts hysterical and start ripping peoples heads off, I'll just be yanking my own hair out in tremendous clumps i nthe meantime.

Also! there is of course, as i have learned throught many years of getting excited about a process such as this, "the one thing" event. This is the name i have given to that one thing that I have either overlooked or simply just never expected that will pop up at some point in the home stretch to suck the momentum out of a grinning dash to the finish and when finally resolved leaves me with a bummed out foot shuffling dirt drag across the line because rather than the glorious replay worthy finish that i've been looping in my mind, I'm now forced to swallow thae embarassing "tripped over myself and hobbles in for a fourth place pole.

But Hey!! for now, I'm still grinning and my shoes are still tied X). Can't WAIT for Star Wars: The Old Republic!!!