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I’m pretty much just updating here just to update. There really isn’t a whole lot going on. Just trying to finish out the semester and take the much needed winter break.

I have a GameFly account now. Mostly because Dave and I are sharing the account, which makes it rather cheap, considering and there are quite a few games that I want to play, but not necessarily buy. This way I can play them until I am satisfied and move on to the next game. Right now I have Assassin’s Creed for the PS3. I don’t know how I feel about that one yet. I also have The Orange Box for the Xbox 360. I really like The Orange Box because the sensation of playing Portal and Half-Life 2 is much different than playing them on the PC, but at the same time, much the same. I makes sense to me.

Speaking of PCs, I have a bitching new 22″ widescreen (16:10) monitor. It is an Acer AL2216W. Definitely not the topest of the top of the line, but still up there in terms of performance. CNet said that the only really bad thing about it was that it had “[n]o extras such as speakers or USB ports.” I’m okay with that. Lexy got the monitor as a Christmas present for me and now I have to think of a present for Lexy, though she thinks I’m done buying her presents. We paid under $200 for it last week at Newegg.com, but I think we picked up a leftover Cyber Monday deal. Either way, it is a nice monitor and running at 1680 x 1050 is WAAAY better than the lowly (and 4:3) 1024 x 768. I don’t know how I lived without all this screen space. I’ll put up a picture of it on my desk one of these days, but you can find pictures of it at the two links in this paragraph.

There is a little app I would recommend running on your computer if you use it more than once or twice a day. It’s called ObjectDock. It is very much like the Dock on Apple’s OS X operating sytem, but for Windows. You have to jump through some hoops to find the download and make sure you are downloading the free version rather than the pay-for one. I don’t really know the differences between the versions, but I do know that this dock is much better than the other one I was using, RKLauncher.

I’ve started playing WoW, though I can’t (read: shouldn’t) really talk about that in such a public place. It’s a public secret. I will suffice to say that my computer can run WoW at 1680 x 1050 and it is awesome.

Need to get ready for class and work. It is kind of convenient that I work on the same campus I go to class. I can’t remember whether any of you actually know where I work. I tutor people in math. Mostly Calculus, but apparently the amount of Calc hours we have had this semester is more than four times any previous semester. There have been some in for Elementary to College Algebra, but mostly my regulars are for Calculus. I don’t mind it, I get to remember all that I forgot of math. I dare say it is keeping me sharp. The program I work for is federally funded, so I get paid, but the students I tutor get the service for free. Sounds like a pretty sweet deal? It’s alright. I’m working about 14 hours per week, but that’s about the limit I would want to work and go to school with. Luckily Lexy is bitchin’ and supporting me in my life decision.

There, that should fill the update hole for a little while.

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