Will do once I get them installed, truck is filthy and I want to clean the interior or at least vacuum the floor real good before I put them down

 

I betcha Jimbo has you beat...

And something about two Macbooks (if jim ever sends mine back!!!) an iMac, a first gen Dell XPS, and a few other small desktop PC's.... makes me kinda a nerd, as well... I think on those things there, I have 11,000 dollars into em?

 

I got the day off... lol... Last year i got a baby girl.... This year i'm getting my christmas present when i get home... (Body lift and level kit, Rims and tires, line-X) gotta love deployment money.

 

It adds up. Then again, the average home user doesn't have a gaming PC, productivity PC, mess-around-with-Linux PC, laptop, file server, web server, database server, KVM switch, and that doesn't even include all the peripherals or software licenses. It took my wife a while to learn to cope with our electric bill.

Unlike a truck, in a few years, it will all be obsolete and replaced (except the gaming PC that seems to need replaced yearly, but that's probably just ego). Also, unlike a truck, there's no sponsors to offset costs.

Of course, my family has been using my hand-me-down PCs for years. I don't think my parents have bought a new PC in at least 10 years.

When I get flack about the cost (or space it takes up), then I just say "I'm a software engineer, you wouldn't fault a carpenter for owning a bunch of power tools, so why fault a me for owning a bunch of computer hardware?" Either that, or I wait for her to go do something like buy a Burberry purse and then when she complains about my buying a new piece of hardware I can just go "True, it was expensive, but much more practical than a $400 purse." Or the ultimate trump, "You think this costs a lot? Would you like to discuss your student loans from law school?"

First kid is on the way in about 6 months, so I might as well live it up now.

 

HAhahaha......

I like that.....

 

I finally got my SPAL controller for the fan. Pretty nice looking too. And a little spending money that'll go to Fastman TB.

 

i could easily spend 4k on a new PC, i could easily spend 9-10K ona new pc i think im the biggest geek here, i did not pay for any of the parts on my system. i got them all as other peoples throw aways and put htem together, not really a gaming pc but it runs all of my software, except im having trouble getting my illustrator cs3 to activate any suggestions, but it will do until i get my new laptop from the school in july/august(im going to stevens and they giv you a laptop when you start)

and my best gift was probably my ram upgrade(it was the RDRAM that sooooo hard to find) and my favorite was one of those new LED mag lites, the 2 AA ones reallllyyyyy bright

 

i gots lots of girt cards, but the best present would have to be this sweet firefighters plaque from the boyfriend, and a digital camera from his rents....nuthin for lil blue tho...yet

 

I'm with ya there buddy!