That's right, just when you thought I fell off the face of the earth, it turns out a series of unfortunate events were the culprit. Those events of course are what we here on Earth call Life! I won't go into all the details of what has been happening since last November (my last post) but I will let you know that the last of these events was something called surgical micro-diskectomy or some such nonsense. All it really means is that the docs went in under a micro scope and removed parts of my L3-L4 and L4-L5 disks in my back because those loose bits were herniated out and pinching off a nerve, which caused me great leg and buttock pain. How's that for being a pain in the butt? The operation has a 70-80% success rate, so I will have to wait and see if the pain completely leaves. Wish me luck!
That isn't all of course, my daughter left for her first year at college this fall. Attending Eastern University to major in Elementary Education, bless her heart. But it is through this process that I was not only driven to poverty, but I also got to pick up a couple of nifty toys to help her in her scholastic endeavors and still keep in touch with us:
The first was of course a laptop. "I could never get a laptop at their prices", bah! humbug! You haven't seen what has been happening these days have you? With Intel's release of their new Core 2 Duo chip that packs a huge wallop in power, but carries a low price tag, Desktop computers and laptops are at ridiculously low prices! Why? Because as fantastic as this new chip is, the average user at home, college, businesses, military, just don't need that much power. Not to mention that there won't be software out that fully utilizes that power for the average user for some time. Plus the competition from AMD means their chip prices have dropped dramatically. Do a search on Google...laptops below $500...desktop systems under $400! With Pentium 4 or Athlon 64 driving them, they are very fast systems that don't break your wallet! They have DVD drives and burners, wireless networking, big screens, graphics and sounds to make any gamer happy, and all for a fraction of what you thought it would cost.
I prefer to do the whole system customize thing myself rather than walk into an "electronics store" or "computer store" where you are often hit with high prices from the get go, then you are pressured to add everything under the sun to the package that you just don't need.
Check out BuyXG.com. They are a great, easy to use custom system place that no matter what price a system starts at, you can configure it down to meet your budget.
well, gonna go pop a pain pill....Will let you know about my new cell phone next time!
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