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01/07/2005 Archived Entry: "new 'puter"

Have I mentioned how I have the best in-laws? They bought us a new computer yesterday and the only reason I can come up with is because they are just such wonderful, not to mention generous, people. Don't get me wrong, we needed a new computer pretty desperately. Not only was ours over 5 years old and completely maxed out at 256 RAM (can you say, slooooow?), but things were starting to just stop working, like my Outlook Express, and the fan for the power board went out so we were using it with the cover sitting off to help it not overheat and shut down for hours on end, which it did anyway.
So here I sit at our new powerful beast :) It's a pain trying to get everything tweaked right and import stuff from the old computer (I have yet to be successful in that dept.) but it runs, and it runs beautifully. It's nice to have a built-in CD-RW (our last one was external), plus we have DVD-ROM now, and I have one of those little slots in the front for my camera's memory card. Woo-Hoo! Is all I have to say. We also now have much more video memory to play new games :)

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We had two days of dryness and now it's back to sogginess. It hasn't stopped raining all day and it's going to stay that way for awhile. Tabitha has gardening class tomorrow so it will have to be moved inside. I'm not looking forward to driving all over in the rain, but you do what you gotta do. We are hoping to go to Disneyland on Monday for a pin event, but we'll have to wait and see. We are going for the long awaited family picture on Monday though, no matter what. Tabitha and I got haircuts yesterday as you can see in the sidebar. I took about 8-inches off of mine and am learning how to deal with it right now. It feels odd. Tabitha's just had her ends layered and also face-framing layers put in the front. So now we're ready for that family pic before baby comes.