September 5, 1997 -- I won't even pretend to have a reason I haven't written in a while...I'm just lazy.

But here I am...in a new place. In the past thousand years since I've updated, I moved up to my apartment in Binghamton. I started school on Tuesday this week, and I've walked or ridden my bike up and down the hills to SUNY Binghamton about 12 times, been driven 3 times (never for a class though!). It hasn't rained too much (knock on wood) and walking has been okay. But life's looking good, and I can't complain. I'm just in such bad shape that I huff and puff the whole way. But that'll be over eventually...I'll get in shape.

My room rules...big bed, cool posters, big closet, and a huge lime-green bean-bag chair. It kinda looks like a big turd. ;)

But, the real reason I'm writing is the state of RAM in my computer. I have 16 megs right now...and for my computer science class I need to run Microsoft (Grrr...) Visual C++...which requires 20 megs. So, you say, get some more RAM... Okay. I called Mom and told her what I needed to do, and she authorized me to use the almighty Visa to purchase the amount of RAM I have been debating buying for a while. You see, I have an Acer Aspire...it has 4 slots for memory, it takes simms in pairs, and I already have two eight meg chips. Here's where it gets fun--it's upgradable to a maximum of 128 megs. That's four 32 meg simms for the slower people out there. Now, I have two empty slots, and I could just get two more 8 meg chips, or even 16 meg chips...but then if I ever wanted to upgrade further I would have to dump them and buy bigger chips. It is my belief that anything less than 32 meg chips is a waste of time. Why buy now and get less, just to spend more money later? Guess how much RAM I'm picking up tonight at 5? Two 32 meg simms. For $112 apiece (for those of you who don't shop for RAM much, that's cheap...32 meg chips are usually about $180ish). ;) I got such a deal! Life rules. Oh...I'm going to have 80 megs in my 'puter. Can you say VROOOM!!!!?

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