Computers, Cars, and Money.
Mood: stressed out
Music: Koukasen - Ellegarden
Okay so a lot of really scary things have happened to me recently, as well as some pretty awesome things.
First of all, I spilled water on my computer on mother's day. Yeah, I reeeeeeally wish I wouldn't have done that. I let it dry for a few days, and while I was at school, my mom tried to turn it on and it worked. We discovered that sometimes it would turn on and sometimes it wouldn't, so ~Malcorix and I took it apart and used DeoxIT on some connectors, which may have gotten a little messed in the whole ordeal. After that, things seemed dandy for a while, but when I tried to update my OS [just from 10.6.7 to 10.6.8, nothing major] it had issues restarting. I tried to turn it on this morning too, and I had to turn it on and off like 20 times until it actually booted. And to add the icing on the cake, my hinge that I welded shut is broken again, so I have to fix that. I'm gonna do that this evening, and then tomorrow or something I might take it apart again and clean the connector to the power button again. That's the one we think is messing up, which makes sense, because there's a sound that you're supposed to hear when you press it that doesn't happen when it isn't booting. Yeah. If that sentence made sense.
But yeah so I'm gonna do some further maintenance on that tonight. I want to get a good day of use on this comp first though, cuz the epoxy is gonna take all night to dry. I think the water was what started breaking it up, which is stupid anyway because it's supposed to be virtually indestructible. =,,=
The good news is that I took my driving test AND I PASSED!!!!!!!! YAYYYYYYYY! So now I'm looking for vehicles. The sooner I can drive myself to school, the better. It's kind of weird actually, me having a driver's license. xD I definitely feel like less of a loser now.
I'm kind of freaking out about money, because I don't know if I can fix the booting problem with my comp. I'm fairly confident that I can reglue the hinge and keep that functional for a few more months, but I can't be in class trying to power up my comp 20 times before it actually runs. I'm thinking that getting the car is going to be my first priority dealing with large expenses. Once I get payments figured out and insurance stuff, my monthly payments that are car related could be anywhere from $200-300. I'm confident that with all the school money I'm getting that I can pull that off until I get a job, but adding a computer expense onto that is going to be a bit tougher. I want to have a new machine by the end of this year for sure, though. If I can keep this computer working for me until the end of this semester, I should have enough money by the time I get another check from school the following semester that I could get a new comp at that point.
SO HEY IF YOU LOVE ME YOU SHOULD SEND SOME MONEY TO MY PAYPAL. 
THEN I CAN BUY ALL OF THE THINGS I NEED IN LIFE AND I'LL BE THE HAPPIEST KID ON THE PLANET. Either that, or order some commissions from me. xD That'll help too. I'm going to have to be REALLY strict with my spending for a while. I want to spend some monies on new clothes within the next month or so, but other than that, I basically just need to have 50 bucks left over per semester for board and for putting money into my print account. So as long as I don't have to buy any $50-150 birthday presents for anyone this semester, I should have enough cash to stay relatively afloat just from school money.
BUH.
So I'm under quite a bit of stress. If I wouldn't have spilled water on this computer, life would be about 75% easier, but I guess I'm just gonna have to fight through this one. I'm gonna do my best to make it through this semester with computer booting problems. Ill prolly turn it on once a day like before school or something and then leave it in sleep mode when I'm not using it until I get home or something to avoid dealing with shutting down and booting 50 times a day. Maybe that'll help with that issue at least until I can get a new one.
The great thing is that I'm not just gonna be getting a new comp to get rid of the physical problems I'm having with this one - I'll be getting a new comp so I can actually work with large files and not have a billion issues with applications force quitting and crap like that. I need a new comp for more reasons than because I spilled water on it [which is a pretty big issue in itself], so I don't really feel bad about lusting after a new, pretty, shiny one. Doxy and I have been through a lot, but I know that if I keep him around that I'm gonna have a lot of problems. Maybe I'll keep him around as a backup computer or just an extra unit for if I for some reason need two computers. I could sell him, but meh, we'll see. I dunno who's gonna want a computer with booting problems and a broken hinge for anything else but spare parts.
Over this past week, I managed to start work on Odette's manip. I used ~Malcorix's laptop during class, and I got most of Odette's body done. I'd be finishing her right now, but I left her file on his comp. I'll get it at school on wednesday probably, and then finish it before this weekend. She's got really cool pretty markings and she's technically a unicorn, so it should be pretty awesome.
I guess that's all I have to discuss right now. Though I'm having comp issues, I should be able to work on commissions and junk within a timely manner, so don't be afraid to ask me about a price for a pic. Remember, my commission info is right here on this page, just scroll down a bit and it's on the left side in a "Custom Box". All the info you need is right there. 
ALRIGHT.... WELL.... Wish me luck I guess. xD Hopefully I can get everything fixed tonight. Tomorrow will be file backup day, and tuesday will be "let's try to do homework" day. xD
-Bef
Sta.sh
(sorry for the late comment...)
