*Computer things and *Azn shit, including food. And new games. That's 3 but technically that can be classified within the umbrella of computer things.
ALL OF THESE in the last few days, almost consistently, are like the foreplay to my birthday- which I'm anticipating on doing absolutely nothing for! :D
It's almost as if I haven't had a day off (to my standards) in several weeks. This is because to me a 'day off' is literally not leaving my house, and possibly my room, for the entire day. Or communicating with anyone. Just me and my misery, and my computer. And Netflix.
I'm not complaining though. Simply looking forward to sleeping in and doing nothing, at least for one of those days that I requested off. Ha ^-^
L a s t W e e k |
Thursday - Omghad, k so in order to get a better graphics card, it's just best to get a better power supply and some more RAM. Just to be safe. I wanted to see my options. I'm kinda on a budget, but kinda not at the same time. So since I sold my old comp to DnD guy, we agreed to take a trip to Fry's Electronics and pick up a bunch of stuff for his comp, and for mine as well. After work I went home and brought the computer over. He had already bought a desk and had yet to put it together, plus setting everything up once we got all his shit. WEE! (I love doing that stuff. It's so fun!)
So off we went. We roamed around aimlessly for a while and eventually decided on some stuff. He got a wireless router (mistake) and a 14ft cable, a power strip, some douchebag looking speakers that he got specifically just because I said they look like douchebag speakers, and some other shit I don't remember. I got 4Gs of RAM (mistake) and canned air for computer bath time. I checked out some of the graphics cards they had and found the one I wanted. Waaaahh. Rot suggested I get the Rosewell power supply off Newegg. I wanted to see what Fry's had and it all looked yucky. So I'm probably gonna just go with that one and wait to get the card later. Aww, I love Fry's. It's like walking around in a Toys R Us.
After wandering around forever from not knowing if we were done yet, we went to Chipotle and stuffed our faces. One does not just go to Chipotle and not stuff one's face. I've tried. A challenge I will never accept.
14 ft cable lololol
We returned to his place. He started putting the desk together and I set up the computer. Problem!
The computer wasn't detecting a connection at all. There wasn't even an icon at the bottom that would pop up.
We way later discovered the reason for this, but it took us basically all afternoon/evening to figure it out. It was dramatic. He was calling his friends, I was calling my roommate. Websites were browsed, I googled the fuck out of this, restarting shit constantly- nothing. No detection. No where. Didn't even feel the damn cable in it's ass.
Basically, drivers weren't installed. Before that we pretty much assumed everything else that could possibly happen and just kept failing at making it work. Hours and hours of failing. Also, once we figured it out, we decided it was a better idea to just have a long, ugly, network cable connecting from the living room router to his room instead of just relying on the wireless one he bought earlier. Fry's was closing in an hour so we just hauled ass back there and exchanged stuff for a 50ft. I had to drop him off. We didn't even have time to assemble his desk, I felt bad. But all in all it was a fun day. This is the type of shit I dive into head first with a huge smile on my face. It was like an episode on some TV show that doesn't exist. There was action (my defensive driving), drama (the missing drivers) the excitement (opening the BIOS to see if the LAN option was enabled), romance (what game to buy), and just everything ever. but like... with computer stuff.
Friday - Team Cool does Little T! As per usual ;) This trip we thought that we would have some other people joining us, but as it were things didn't turn out that way. No biggie! I went to pick up Devon and we headed off to the metro station. We talked about WoW for a long time as I circled the lot trying to find parking. It was almost like reminiscing. It was nice talking about WoW again to someone other than Rotny in person. No luck with parking, so we went to the other metro station and circled there for about half an hour. Still nothing. It was eventually decided that we should just drive down there instead. Inside I was screaming, but I couldn't let Devon down. We're Team Cool. We do Little T on Fridays. I'LL GET THROUGH THIS BECAUSE WE TALKED ABOUT WOW AND IT WAS MEANINGFUL DAMNIT.
So I drove us there. Heart racing and more scared than a wet cat but I did it. I held in my nervous gasping squeaks just for her. I'm proud of myself.
Eventually, we found a little public parking lot smack dab in the middle of everything. 6 dorrar!
We nommed on Ramen ^-^ They have new menus! It seemingly made the whole place look brighter and more uplifting... but it was probably just our excitement over the fancy new menu layout.
We then went to the grocery and got a bunch of nommy snackies. Ramunè is a must on every trip. I tried orange and plum this time. Orange was my favorite! They're so cheap, they're like a dollar and some change. Less than a cup of black coffee at Starbucks. :3
Yaoi things at the bookstore. ^_^ hee
We had boba drinks this time! I've been wanting to try what they have at this shop next to our Ramen place and we finally did! YUMMYYY :DD
She got the Thai iced tea and I got the mango slushie thing. I could drink that stuff forever. The bobaaaa I wub iiittt so fun and nommy!
We also went to this bakery that she really likes. We were so full from the Ramen and boba that we settled on one thing this time. Chocolate mousse. Now, I'm not the biggest fan of chocolate anything (defect, I think) but this shit was unreal. It's not even fair how good it was. Like wtf. HOW
I don't even know. It was... really good, basically.
Next time, we're trying the green tea mousse :3
Blueberry chichi dango is mooshy and yum :3
We returned to the Sanrio shop that sold the Tokidoki unicorn mystery boxes but they didn't have them anymore! So we were on a mission to find them elsewhere, but had no luck :( So we got other mystery box things instead. She got this samuri kitty thing and I got this pink haired anime dude on a macaroon! Haha. We had to settle, but I guess... who doesn't? /shrug
It's cute enough!
Squee
Sunday - I worked and came home to eat, shower and sleep. But I get a text from DnD that there still something wrong with the computer and he thought it was either the RAM or the video card. He mentioned it the night before but said he'd try and fuck with it and see what it was. Oops I guess? So I went over there and he said it was making loud beeping noises earlier. Scared the shit out of me. Turns out the RAM wasn't in all the way. -_- He had taken them out and tried to do stuff with no luck because one of the sticks aren't being read for whatever reason. We couldn't figure that out either. I snapped them back in (little hands make for easier application!) but not before trying out the two other sticks I brought over just to see, but they didn't fit. Put the other original two back it and started it up. Yay! But one of the modules weren't being detected :( I'm not sure what to do at this point. It could be the computer (doubtful because it detected it before I wiped it) or it could be the module itself. I don't knooooww. He was excited to set up a bunch of stuff though. He even set up a twitter account! Haha.. he suggested I get LoTRO... eeeeeeeehhhhhh. Maybe. Rot's been wanting me to try it for months but eeeehhh... I dunno. I really want him to try LoL. I guess I'll try it if he tries LoL.
Also, I had extra copies of some games, so those were his. At some point I wanna test his skills at WC3. Test my skills, too! Oi. I will never understand why Rotny doesn't like WC3. It's nonsense to me. I cant
After payday, I think we're gonna make another trip to Fry's and maybe see if they have the same module builds that would go with his board. That and I wanna get an external harddrive. Other than that, we watched Battle Royale sort of because he's never seen it before. And then I split. Ate, made a new toon in GW2 and went to bed because I worked at 4am the next day. Phew!
Today I was sent home early from work. This gives me some quality me time ^-^
Boo.