>I’ve been very careful as of late.

I haven’t written much.

I am only half lazy, I admit: I’m also somewhat superstitious.

I don’t want to jinx it by saying how great things are going… but here’s the low down.

I have a job now. It’s a temp job. There’s no bennefits, 4 days a week, 10 hours a day plus an hour for lunch. It’s really lax, there’s no one breathing down my neck, no one telling me to take my breaks… I’m on my own. I give the customer’s the best service I can, and attempt to treat every issue with patience and clarity.

I really do enjoy it.

I’ve built a really bad ass AMD 64 bit system, running WinXP 64. It’s a very beta experiment, but I figure since I have access to a free 64 bit operating system, I might as well use it and make it as compatible with the hardware I’ll be using. Every windows beta is like a custom invitiation from Microsoft to challenge them with new hardware and drivers.

My past builds of Windows have worked well, they normally work out any issues in a release or two, and unlike most people, I actually get to hear what’s wrong if something ends up in a blue screen. Not only that… but they FIX it! =]

So here’s the stats cause I can’t contain myself:

• 64-bit AMD Opteron with 800mhz bus
  
  (overclockable, but I’ve overdone it already — currently we’re running straight factory settings).
  

• 1gb of Kingston Hyper-X Dual Channel DDR3500 533mhz RAM.
  

• 80gb WD SATA 133 (soon to be multiple raid, the motherboard is capable of the yet-unreleased SATA 3Gig/sec (vs 133mb/sec) in RAID configurations
  

• 2 x GeForce 6600GT cards running SLi (dual video card mode) PCI Express 128mb (would have cost over $200 more for 2 of the 256mb cards, and since I’ve got 2… figured I could skimp on the memory.
  

• The Sophisticate case w/ 480W Power Supply.
  

• DVD/CDRW combo drive<

I’ll post pictures. I need to post lots of pictures. I’m behind in the picture department.

Oh yeah, and the small matter of the new TV my new room mate just bought: 50″ 16:9 Sony LCD Projection…. and we got the HD Box from Comcast… schweeeeeeeet!

I realize what I’ve been missing.

Couple points of interest:

– HD TV can do 480i, 480p, 720p, 1080i/p

– DVD can do 480i, 480p

The progressive scan option on that DVD player of yours is the difference between the i and the p.

TV looks better then DVDs, yessir.

And component (red/blue/green) cables actually compress the HDTV signal, the only cables that do not compress the signal are DVI & HDMI (new technology which integrates up to 8 channels of digital sound in the 1 cable).

The cable box has a DVI so that’s my next step — full HD cable w/o any compression 😉

The roommate’s cool, shares food with my still-currently-poh ass… and serves as a much needed break on rent. =] He’s not young, but my parents are older, so maybe it’s easier for me not to see it as some sort of parental figure thing. He’s a The new room mate actually came -before- the TV, believe it or not. Only after he moved in did he suggest it. He’s got good advice sometimes. I wouldn’t exactly call it sage, but it’s no slouch stuff.

No complaints from me, my trusty 32″ is sitting in waiting for the big scary tv to pass though. It knows the TV won’t be around for ever. I’m just glad it’s here ^-^

On top of all the great stuff, I have a wonderful girlfriend. I’m very happy with my current situation. I just had to note this, as I know I haven’t been overly optimistic in writings as of late. I’m keeping a more positive feeling going =] I’m reading some Yoga/Herbs book my brother let me borrow, and I think it may be keeping me in a good frame of mind.

It will get better, it all goes bad all at once, and it all gets better all at once.