PC

I've ordered the stuff, it's even arrived, and yet I'm still sitting in the library.

I've just not had a moment since the box arrived from Novatech. With any luck I'll at least get a look in it tonight. Trouble is, I've not had 5 minutes since the kit arrived. Teaching in Edinburgh all week, running around after the people-carrier and trying to get work has just left me without enough time to do it.

Oh! I've arsed up the order, having got a 256Mb model rather than a 512Mb version of the graphics card. Why the various iterations weren't listed on the same page, never mind beside each other I do not know. Their loss, though. The other one was a good deal dearer.

Eek!

Today, I had my 1st proper job interview in about 20 years.

The joys of impending fatherhood. Oh well, at least I'll finally have some money coming in on a regular basis. You'll notice that I'm confident enough in getting it...

Biggest problem is that, being for NHS24, I'll be providing 'out-of-hours' cover, so back to nights and holiday weekends and so on. Yet another reason I'm going to have to have driving lessons and buy a car. I knew having a baby was going to be dear, but I didn't realise that getting a job to fund having a baby was going to be so bloody expensive!

How Hard Can It Be?

The search for a new PC continues. I spent 2 hours in Hillhead Library with Cairnsie & still haven't ordered anything. It seems that most of the research I've done is pretty useless when it comes to actually doing the purchasing. All the websites that do bundles &c use their own codes for, especially, motherboards & memory.

If I wanted to go to the individual manufacturers & order separately I could get the components I've traced. Getting what I want in the combination I'd like from Novatech or Ebuyer is impossible. I can't even figure out what some of the pre-build places offer. This used to be sooo much easier!

Annoying!

Just realised I'd already done that last post. Sadly, I can't delete it as the button doesn't work on the PDA.

Boom!

Posting may well be limited for the next wee while as the new 2Gb memory stick I bought from eBay shorted out itself, the rest of my memory and the motherboard. So much for trying to save money and only upgrade a bit.

Well, at least I'll be back at the cutting edge of computing for a while. About a fortnight, probably.