So time for a little update I guess. Nothing out of the ordinary has happened (how unusual), but the last few weeks has been great nonetheless. Tina has stayed with me for quite a few weeks during this month (my last post about her apparently being a bit overly dramatized) and it has been wonderful to have her with me. Still playing WoW together, taking walks, watching series/movies and the usual things.

She’s currently staying at my place for an undefinite duration, unfortunately not a very positive reason behind it. Last monday she asked me if she could come over, it sounded like something was up, which was confirmed when she got here crying. Long story short, she hasn’t had the easiest life in the world and doesn’t have the best relationship with her parents, and this time they had a bit of a serious fight and she just couldn’t stand staying at home any longer. So yea, not sure how long she’ll stay here, but I don’t mind it one bit at least. I just wish I could do something, I feel a bit helpless in it all. I can’t really do much more than feel sorry for her for having to put up with everything and let her stay as long as she needs to. Apart from that, the last week with her has been rather nice, she seems to be dealing with it all in a pretty good way luckily.

After ordering a new power supply for my computer last month, I decided to also upgrade my computer a little bit in the process as I had a little money in the bank left over from my birthday/christmas. Considering that my computer is getting quite a few years old now, it was a nice little noticable upgrade, just by buying some current mid-level parts.

EPoX EP-9NPA+ 939 —-> MSI K9A2 CF-F Socket-AM2+
AMD Athlon 64 3200+ 2.0GHz —-> AMD Athlon 64 X2 5600+ 2.8GHz
TwinMOS PC3200 DDR-DIMM 1024MB —-> Crucial DDR2 BallistiX PC8500 2048MB
Leadtek 6600GT 128MB —-> XFX GeForce 8500GT 256MB

Of course I had to run into problems… ugh. Any 3D game would freeze the computer completely (no way to alt+tab/ctrl+alt+del/whatever out of the game) at seemingly random times. I did all the driver updates I could possibly think of to no avail. Even though it’s a silent card with no fan, it’s definitely not a heat issue either as it has been barely warm to the touch even after heavy gaming sessions. Another strange thing was that it refused to output 75hz on my CRT monitor. I took it out and replaced it with my old 6600gt card and it worked flawlessly, so I’m currently stuck using my old card. Gonna try replacing the XFX card and see if it was something with the card itself, or if it’s some weird compatability problem, hopefully I can replace it with another silent card in the same price-range from where I ordered it. Luckily, with the CPU and memory upgrade, my old graphics card does the job quite nicely in WoW, which is pretty much the only 3D game I play anyway.

Currently reading A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami, lovely so far. Only the third book of his I’ve read, but I’m already in love with his stuff, can’t wait to read more of it.

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