Well, after several weeks
anticipation and as many days waiting of
bank-
bothering, I finally get confirmation of my funds transfer from my new job with a
dot.com firm located in
Great Britain. This money, of course, will go to buy a
new computer so that I may use the latest
bloatware in order to perform a job which I feel will tax my graphic skills to the limit of my
patience. My current system, a woefully
overpowered Pentium 100, simply does not
cut the mustard when it comes to
paint shop pro and
adobe illustrator, though the addition of a
marginally used
Voodoo2 card (purchased at
Future Shop for a bargain price of $49.76
CDN) does do a certain justice to my
Quake 1 addiction. So, soon, perhaps by
Monday I will have my new computer. I intend to aim for a
Duron-powered system, as my budget does not allow me the luxury of a
Thunderbird. Hark, do I hear an
Intel advocate in the distance, crowing about how I should be buying a
Celeron, as it is a better deal? Bzzzzt, I have
no time for you.
On a
lighter note, I burned my
breakfast beyond
edibility today, and have resorted to a pre-noon
sustenance of
pasta salad and
broccoli. I'll be going to
Metrotown later today, in order to purchase
health insurance, even though
I am Canadian, because the cost to me is
laughable. More proof that
the system works.