The Waiting (Is the hardest part)

I know posting lyrics has go to be one of the lowest forms of communication, but hey if you are hooked on a song why not revel in it!

By Tom Petty

Oh baby don't it feel like heaven right now
Don't it feel like something from a dream
Yeah I've never known nothing quite like this
Don't it feel like tonight might never be again
We know better than to try and pretend
Baby no one coulda ever told me 'bout this
I said yeah yeah

Chorus
The waiting is the hardest part
Every day you see one more card
You take it on faith, you take it to the heart
The waiting is the hardest part

Well yeah I might have chased a couple women around
All it ever got me was down
Then there were those that made me feel good
But never as good as I'm feeling right now
Baby you're the only one that's ever known how
To make me wanna live like I wanna live now
I said yeah yeah

Chorus
The waiting is the hardest part
Every day you get one more yard
You take it on faith, you take it to the heart
The waiting is the hardest part

Oh don't let it kill you baby, don't let it get to you
Don't let it kill you baby, don't let it get to you
I'll be your bleedin' heart, I'll be your cryin' fool
Don't let this go too far

Website Design

It's been pretty fun getting back into creative design.  I'm making a website for a non-profit group based here in Niagara Region, and it is so much fun!  I'll be posting on here when I'm done...

House hunting.

The worst time to look for a house is now.  I found one that was willing to take me, but I just could not afford the monthly rent.  The biggest problems I've been having is credit checks and inflated prices.  The prices here are so high because a landlord could rent a 2 bedroom apartment to 2 students for $500 a piece, so why should they take in any less than that.  It's been a thorn in my side this whole time.

Christmas in Magnetewan

There is just nothing like spending Christmas with someone you haven't seen in years.  In my case it was my grandmother.  She lives some 4 hours away up in Magnetewan Township, specifically in Ahmic Harbour, and I haven't been able to go and see her in about 8 or 9 years.  It was such a lovely time, with more food than there really should have been, and since we were up north for almost 3 days we had LOTS of leftovers.  I wouldn't have traded it for anything, although I wish I had taken more pictures.

Well stay frosty, and Happy Christmas!

Job Search and House Hunting

It's beginning to dawn on me that computer repair isn't the business it used to be.  People are more informed now, and it's easier to get the information.  Which means more people are fixing their own computers.  And then add to that the number of computer technicians in this city and now you've got problems finding a job.  I  may have to find a new career.  Maybe something without so much customer interaction.  Maybe I need to go to college too.  Well I don't have a lease anymore so I suppose that means I could go to another city for college.  That being said I would like to pursue a career in video games.  So since my beta testing days are now over what with public beta tests happening all the time, and now alpha tests are done by the artists and programmers that make the game, I'm going to have to find out what I'm good at.  3D modelling, texturing, or programming.

New motherboard

It's come to that time again, where I take apart my gaming computer and put new things in it.  I've been having some trouble with my computer restarting and my hard drive shutting off for a while now, and I've been wanting a new CPU/Motherboard for even longer.  This would be the first brand new motherboard I've installed in my own computer for the past 10 years.  Every one has been second hand or found in the trash since I started going out with C.  Now that we are getting married in August I'm pretty sure I will not be able to afford a new computer anytime soon.  Actually the computer I found in the trash was years ahead of the one I had been using, and someone had just thrown it out.

So here's what I bought: AMD FX-8120 8-core @ 3.1GHz and an MSi 970-g46 motherboard.  Now I'm quite aware that this setup will never be a hackintosh, and I'm ok with that.  I just spent 3 months fiddling with a hackintosh triple boot, and that's time enough to know I'd rather have a real apple computer than keep fiddling with it.  Now that I think about it, this started happening when I installed my new video card, but that can't be what's causing the problems since this power supply was driving 2 video cards in another computer only 1 year ago.

Well I'm going to run some tests with eXtreme Power Supply Calculator to see if i'm still off with my power calculations, but as I see I should only need a 450W supply for the mobo, CPU, RAM, vid card, hdd, and dvd drive I'm using.

Star Wars

Now I know that this is still a pretty well trending topic, what with the new star wars movie pencilled in for 2015.  Now I'm not sure how many of you have read the extended universe books, but there's a huge resource of material out there, but Disney has decided to not use any of it.  That means no Mara Jade or Winter, or any of the Organa-Solo children.  This also means that the extended universe could become innaccurate now that there's even more Star Wars canon coming out.  So yet even more ret-conned stuff is bound to happen, and still more fuel for the extended universe authors.  Seems like bad news and good news, but don't be too alarmed....  It's not like we WON'T go see this film.  It hasn't even been written and there is already almost a billion people who want to see it.