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trixtahI have fairly idiosyncratic spending habits. Really, my base ethos is "easy come, easy go", although I am exceedingly anal about paying bills. My two main Achilles heels are spending on travel and food. However, a couple of times a year, I'll go out and spend some money on some gadget or other that I don't have an immediate use for. I'm worse with this when I'm feeling pinched financially - oh, the irony - and if I've been "good" for an exceedingly long time. Since I don't remember the last time I did this, it must be coming up for at least a year.
Since I've been playing around with drawing lately, I thought one of those el cheapo drawing tablets might well be the thing. Sure enough, I found one for less than $150, which was my upper limit. Unfortunately, I also found a very dinky little no-brand network-attached storage enclosure, for just over $100. When then meant I needed to get a HDD that would go in it. I was very restrained, and kept myself down to 250GB. Of course, if I were really going to be economical, I would have ordered all the above online for probably about 20% off. As it was, nearly $500 down the gurgler in the space of half-an-hour. Bad me.
Don't worry, this isn't an angsty post, I can actually afford it. It just means an extra week added to my debt-repayment schedule, and slightly less free cash till the bloody 5th of Jan. It's funny that I never have these impulsive moments when I'm feeling rich, though. :-)
I went off and donated blood as a small measure of penance. But the NAS unit is working beautifully, on both my Linux and Windows systems. It even has a sleep mode to put the disk into hibernation if you haven't accessed it for X minutes. Yay. Now to see if the tablet will work on Ubuntu. ...
Since I've been playing around with drawing lately, I thought one of those el cheapo drawing tablets might well be the thing. Sure enough, I found one for less than $150, which was my upper limit. Unfortunately, I also found a very dinky little no-brand network-attached storage enclosure, for just over $100. When then meant I needed to get a HDD that would go in it. I was very restrained, and kept myself down to 250GB. Of course, if I were really going to be economical, I would have ordered all the above online for probably about 20% off. As it was, nearly $500 down the gurgler in the space of half-an-hour. Bad me.
Don't worry, this isn't an angsty post, I can actually afford it. It just means an extra week added to my debt-repayment schedule, and slightly less free cash till the bloody 5th of Jan. It's funny that I never have these impulsive moments when I'm feeling rich, though. :-)
I went off and donated blood as a small measure of penance. But the NAS unit is working beautifully, on both my Linux and Windows systems. It even has a sleep mode to put the disk into hibernation if you haven't accessed it for X minutes. Yay. Now to see if the tablet will work on Ubuntu. ...
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Date: 2006-12-27 09:27 am (UTC)Enjoy the new toy; I hope you'll show us the results of your experiments ;-)
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Date: 2006-12-27 11:34 am (UTC)Yes, once I get to grips with the bloody thing, I'll be parading my results for the appropriate audiences. :-)
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Date: 2006-12-27 10:35 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-12-27 11:35 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-12-28 06:27 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-12-28 06:40 am (UTC)So, what are you doing tomorrow, spunky chick?
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Date: 2006-12-28 10:56 am (UTC)