ages upon ages

I really need to find my way back into a little bit of writing again. I threw up a post on AFF that was a bit more for the future "activity bonus" than anything else, but I guess it was slightly better than nothing at least. I'm thinking that it may not be such a bad idea to start writing here a bit more just to get my feet wet again or something. Sometimes the humor (& stuff) just comes back the more I write.

So in my AFF post, I mentioned the snagging up of another coffee table and two end-tables from by the dumpster. I haven't quite been able to talk myself into swapping out the coffee tables just yet, but I'm a bit surprised at how much I'm liking having the end-tables. Zeke has nearly taken up residence under one of them even ...I don't know if it's so much that he likes laying underneath it so much as that I'm now using the recliner a lot more. Too crazy about having the handle for the silly thing just appear out of nowhere like it did! So my "end table" before was a large speaker ...with the actual table now, I find it a bit easier to sit in the recliner with my coffee or whatever. I had been laying on the couch so much ...I think it might somehow be a bit better for me to sit in my chair, and it's certainly a bit more conducive to writing more. I really should swap out the coffee tables just to see how it looks ...as much as I hate losing my drawer, it isn't as though I can't put all the remotes & stuff on one of the end tables (maybe in a basket or something). One might start getting the impression that I'm a bit resistant to change if I keep this waffling up.

I guess it has had a lot to do with the "quitting smoking" thing ...but I've been working a bit more on my desktop computers, although not in the last few days. I've put together two computers in the meantime; one with a brand new board, processor, etc ...the other is an older one I just had in the closet, but I loaded it up with games (with the intention of using it as a gaming computer for the TV; I may or may not still do that). One of the drives in the gaming one has just came up as bad (I had actually suspected it was going south), I have just lost the drive on my MAIN computer that has all of my current TV shows (although I'm not sure yet if the drive itself actually shelled out ...it just disappeared from explorer). My "secondary" computer is having troubles with it's main drive and running slow as shit with the HD light on nearly all the time ...but that has been since just a while before I quit smoking. I've seen this one coming on, and have been trying to back up everything of importance at least. So before, I had one out of two giving me problems; now I'm up to three out of four. Some techie *I* am!!! lol

I really need to get busy ...I'm fairly certain that I can fix up all of them without having to actually buy anything, but I guess I need the motivation to get in and get busy to find out. The gaming computer needs to be reformatted (which is a bitch, because it took me so fucking long to get it working right the first time); starting over may fix some of the problems with the TV output, as well as gain me 70 gigs on the HD. The drive that got lost on my main one just needs to be taken out, and put in the newest computer; if it works ...cool; if it doesn't, I can hopefully use some forensic software to save my shit. The secondary computer ...I can either move some stuff to my newest computer and just install windows again on one of the SATA's already in it, or something else equally creative. *knock on wood* ...I shouldn't have to spend a dime to get them all fixed up. I noticed a universal laptop battery on sale for $40 that I'm considering; I also think I'm going to buy another UPS and get all my stuff on battery backup ...there has been a fair bit of storming and power outages of late; it would be nice to have everything protected.

Way back on the back burner is a new keyboard & hard drive for my older laptop (another HD would speed the hell out of it); it might not hurt to pull out the keyboard and see if I can clean it at least. I guess I also need to put linux on the old laptop of Seb's; I just hate to see a perfectly good laptop going to waste!

So today makes three weeks without a cigarette. I've been having some pretty major cravings, but so far I've been handling them reasonably well. I just sort of with my incentive were a bit stronger than merely financial. I sure wish I felt a bit "stronger" about the whole thing though.