There’s a good friend out there, hopefully sound asleep at the moment, that’s been through some very tough times and tonight was the beginning of a long, long, rough road to hopefully some long deserved peace and true happiness. I haven’t a clue how I can ever be helpful in the journey but I find myself unable to sleep tonight concerned and full of worry. You’re in my prayers.
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It just occurred to me last night (duh) that with my new quad core Mac Pro and its 8 GB of 1066 MHz DDR3 ECC SDRAM and the ATI Radeon HD 4870 with 512 MB of GDDR5 that I’ll have a mighty awesome gaming computer (at least for a little while, anyway). That’s. So. Gonna. Rock. Diablo 3? Released when it’s ready? I’m ready.
I will experience all that the darkness hides… and enjoy it greatly.
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Tagged:I was originally given a shipping date of March 30th for the Mac Pro that I ordered on March 9th— last Monday. Then I received an e-mail from Apple last Friday, March 13th, informing me that it would ship early— on March 23rd. But Saturday morning, March 14th, I received another e-mail from Apple informing me that my Mac Pro had shipped.
This morning when I checked the tracking number with FedEx my Mac Pro is indeed showing as shipped and set for delivery by Friday, March 20th. So very cool when I was originally expecting to have to wait until April 3rd to play with my new Mac Pro. That’s two whole weeks earlier than I originally expected.
Now I assume Apple was just being cautious with its original date of March 30th, but never before have I ordered a pre-built system of any kind and received it earlier than expected. True, I have not yet actually received my Mac Pro but my experience with ordering systems from Dell and Gateway for other people in the past always led to waiting extras weeks… definitely not early deliveries.
I hate to feel the tiniest bit impatient now. Two weeks earlier than expected is a good thing. Yet, now… these four days ’til Friday are going to be very slow. So human of me, I guess. I could be waiting another eighteen days like I was originally expecting.
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I ordered myself a quad-core Mac Pro yesterday. Order status currently has it scheduled to ship on March 30th, but who knows if that’s accurate? I didn’t bother to pay for rush delivery. It’ll get here when it gets here, even if I do want it yesterday.
My custom ordered system specs:
Can. Not. Wait.
If only I had the cash to upgrade from my Mitsubishi DiamondPlus 74SB 17″ CRT. It’s a great monitor, but it’s time to move up to a 24″ 1920×1200 LCD. Though, I will not be purchasing the Apple 24″ model at $800 and I don’t know which brand/model I will get when I can afford to buy one.
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My brother-in-law and I caught the 6:15pm showing of Watchmen last night. I wasn’t sure what to expect going in. It’s been been twenty-one years since I read the originals and beyond some key points I didn’t remember much more about it other than that I thoroughly enjoyed it. Over the past week I tried to squeeze in a quick re-read of the graphic novel and didn’t quite make it— I made it to the part where Nite Owl and Rorschach crashed land in the snow (trying to give enough info for those that know the story without giving away any spoilers). So basically, I didn’t have a chance to re-read the ending that I knew had been changed for the movie.
As the movie theater clearly pointed out multiple times… this isn’t your typical super hero movie. It’s graphic in language, in violence and in nudity. It’s a sad, broken, bleak alternate world. Doom and despair weigh heavily on everyone. Most everyone agrees that the world is ending soon… just how soon is all that most differ on.
If that doesn’t sound like your cup of tea, so be it. But I do recommend it. I was expecting to leave the theater with the movie weighing heavily on my shoulders, overwhelmed by all that I witnessed. But I didn’t. The only issue I had with the movie (including the different ending) was the soundtrack. The individual songs were fine— every song awesome on its own. But the selection does NOT fit the film whatsoever. I don’t know who was responsible for that but it was bad, bad, bad.
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