fender jr.

fender jr. left his nest in shanghai today. he's supposed to be here by the 31st. i'm glad i'll be getting him in time to get all the necessary programs and compatibilities built in before i have to start back at work. and who knows? if totally horrible things stop happening to me every 2-3 days, i might even have time to play a game of starcraft or two.

i let the guy on the phone convince me that it was worth upgrading to 64-bit and 4GB of RAM (for no extra charge, of course). i hope that wasn't a mistake, but i was thinking in terms of longevity. if i wasn't such a packrat and didn't have so much fun using old programs/converting .shn files/playing starcraft it wouldn't even have been a decision...but now i'm afraid some of my shit won't stack up or be usable in the 64-bit world. mostly, though, i'll just be happy to have a laptop again. i always swore i'd never be one of "those" people who used their credit card for anything but food or rent money, but having a laptop makes me work life so much easier it's hard to describe in words. is it worth having 1000 dollars on my credit card that's probably going to take me a year to pay off? yeah, i think so.

feeling a bit better today. no fever (or if there is one, it's very low). i do have large amounts of blood coming out of my nose everytime i blow it, which is about every 2 minutes. it also makes eating fun, since not only can i not breathe through my nose at all, when i do manage to swallow a bit of something, it tastes like blood. it's really disconcerting when neon orange sherbet tastes like raw meat.

arg.