What a sucky day!

First I got woken up in the middle of the night because a gigantic crane went by our house since they were finally getting ready to deconstruct the burned down theater behind our house. Sweet with a 4 month delay. So they started today with this:

Nice. This pictures is take from our roof and that theaters was a whole block. We already live in hell but now we have this constant dust coming into our place and don’t get me started on the noise. I mean sweet. How am I supposed to work?

On top of that my Toshiba laptop totally crashed this morning and refuses to start up again. No more warranty and it’s not even 2 years old and I already had to send it in not too long ago for some kind of motherboard problem. MAN!  On my shit list now: Toshiba and Acer!

Great … so the computer dude told me not to expect the laptop back within the next 2 weeks so I finally went to buy a “backup” desktop for only €299!!! Effen cheap. It’s super fast, quite and looks pretty sweet too:

The Acer Aspire X1700 aka U3700A in the USA. WTF … didn’t I just say Acer no more. Well, they had a great deal and me not much money. So .. what the hell. I shopped it.

Specs:

• Box Contents – Acer AX1700-U3700A Desktop PC, Acer USB Keyboard, USB Optical Mouse, USB Amplified Stereo Speakers; Software Bundle – Windows Vista Home Premium 64-Bit Edition with Service Pack 1, Microsoft Works 9.0SE, Microsoft Office Home and Student Edition 2007 60-Day Trial, McAfee Internet Security Suite 2008 60-Day Subscription, 1-Year Limited Warranty
• Intel Pentium Dual-Core E2220 2.4 GHz Processor
• 1 MB L2 Cache, 800 MHz Front Side Bus
• 4096 MB DDR2 RAM
• 640 GB (7200RPM) SATA Hard Drive

Processor, Memory, and Motherboard

• Hardware Platform: PC
• Processor: 2.4 GHz Intel Core Duo
• Number of Processors: 2
• RAM: 4000 MB
• RAM Type: DDR2 SDRAM

Hard Drive

• Size: 640 GB
• Type: Serial ATA

Cases and Expandability

• Weight: 19 pounds

So far so good and the price … OMG not beatable. I will keep you posted how it goes with this little dude.

More info: Acer Aspire X1700

So I spent all day to set up the new machine … FRUSTRATING. Oh well, it’s almost all done but I still feel pretty down. Hate days like this. When was the last time you had a day like that?

I’m so in need for a vacation. Didn’t go anywhere for the last 2 years. Our Hong Kong trip was the last time off. But with all the moves in the last years and the probably next move coming up I just don’t see any vacation in the near future. I would be already happy with couple of days here … dream vacation!

Anyone feels sorry for me and wants to sponsor a little vacation for us? Promise we would blog about it. The truth is we do live in a city where other people do their vacation but I would love to see something new for once.

Ok … you don’t have to shell out $$$ to make me happy. But you could make me happy by subscribing to the Random Good Stuff RSS Feed (I’m sooo close to the magic 5,000 subscriber number). Or following me on twitter would do it too. Best though is to recommend RGS to people. That would make my day.

Now … back to work … less bitching and thank you for listening.