| Written by Diana, on 17-12-2005 04:08 |
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Merry Christmas and Happy Birthday to me: We received our bonuses two days ago and I treated myself to some things. Three flat panel 19" monitors that I'll mount side-by-side on the wall just over my desk for AWSOME wide-screen multi-tasking. I also had to buy three wall mounts ($99 each)and two additional graphics cards ($119 ea.) so I almost could have purchased two new desktops or two new laptops with the works for the same price but I've dreamed of having side-by-side monitors for as long as I can remember. Two would have worked but three flat panels mounted on the wall is 100x better. I saw this while I was browsing: QUAD LCD DISPLAY. Some day. I'd need a new motherboard though for that or else maybe there's a graphics card that uses something other than a PCI slot 'cause I'm all out with 3 monitors. Of course the quad display would only cost me about $450 on top of what I just ordered, I wouldn't even have to purchase the one above to get the exact same thing in probably better quality. The difference with mine is that to have the square layout above I'd have to mount all of the monitors on the wall. They don't come with that special stand. Although here in earthquake USA, I'm not sure I'd want to take the risk of having that type of thing NOT secured to a wall. $3000 gone in a mater of seconds...My SideKick II has arrived. I don't get to even see it until christmas morning but ITS HERE!! and so is my new printer which I got to open and actually use this evening since I bought it. It's already been through "pre-production" and the monitors are in stock but the graphics cards and wall mounts aren't expected to be shipped until January 2nd! I'll only be able to use one monitor until I get those graphics cards. I have to go into work four a couple of hours today (Saturday) because I overslept 3 hours yesterday (Friday) and didn't get into work until 2pm. I told my supervisor I'd probably be in about 10am because he needed to come in to...so I guess I'd better get some sleep. I need to be up by 7:30am. I was going to get an iPod video with my bonus but I'm not using my iPod nano too much. Music was giving me a headache tonight and I have the "doom" feeling when I think of using my iPod. I haven't wrapped any presents or even bought paper. I haven't balanced my checkbook in over a month so instead of just doing it I purchased an upgraded version of MS Money so that all the info can just be downloaded from my bank. Hopefully I won't have to do anything except change the category, notes, etc. of things. I got it at buy.com for $36/7 something of $79.99 because they discounted it and then gave a rebate. I purchased the SideKick II because they do a credit check for the calling plan but my mother was going to pay me back and give it to me for christmas. She still hasn't paid me back and now the cell phone I have until christmas doesn't work because T-Mobile has already transferred my service from Verizon. (6:58am) Man my dad's crabby this morning. I went out to tell him about the cool new flat panel monitors dell has and that I was going to buy [more than one] with my bonus (I wasn't specific about numbers) and he was really crabby about it. Like it's his money, like I should be "saving for tires" even though I don't pay rent and can save for tires EVERY OTHER MONTH. He didn't even seem to find the quad monitor set very cool which I'm surprised about. He also seemed pissed that I haven't been to bed, but I'm almost 24, I'm responsible, and it's the only time I get to work on my computers. AND IT'S THE WEEKEND!!! Damn the man. I want to hit something or something.
Last update: 17-12-2005 04:08
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