What Did You Do Today???

RandyDSok

RandyDSok

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After getting that nice big check for the work on the spreadsheet project...

Today I splurged big time... Some for myself and some for work...

Ordered a new 27" LCD Monitor for the house.... two SSD's ( one for work and one for home ) since I'm almost out of space on my primary drives. Finally got a decently powered ( still a small ) 1.1 cu ft. 1100w microwave oven ( now I can reheat my coffee faster than I can brew a new pot ) for my coffee and lunches at work.

I still need to schedule some overdo maintenance for my Ford Escape and there's probably a few other minor things I need but have put off since they weren't urgent enough to address.

It was also nice to catch up on a couple of overdue bills... and estimated personal income tax to boot... :)
 
Tony

Tony

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Reheated coffee :puke:

That stuff is just flat and has no body. I would rather toss hour old coffee down the drain and make a new pot rather than reheat it in the microwave. Then there is the wonder that is the foam that appears on top of reheated coffee...... Yea, disgusting lmao.
 
RandyDSok

RandyDSok

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Tony said:
Reheated coffee :puke:

That stuff is just flat and has no body. I would rather toss hour old coffee down the drain and make a new pot rather than reheat it in the microwave. Then there is the wonder that is the foam that appears on top of reheated coffee...... Yea, disgusting lmao.
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You forget that I've had to switch to unleaded ( decaf ).... so it wasn't that great when it was fresh .... LMAO
 
RandyDSok

RandyDSok

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Tony said:
I didn't know you switched... When I came to your office, we had the good stuff! lmao.
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I may have stretched the truth some on that... at the office I do have regular... but that wasn't as fun to joke around with...

At home I had to switch because I don't stop drinking it and I was having trouble sleeping good...
 
RandyDSok

RandyDSok

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Today I got in a 525Gb M.2 SSD and a 1050Gb M.2 SSD ... the 525Gb got installed in my work computer and Win10 installed fresh along with the required software I needed for work ( Quickbooks, MS Office and various disk recovery and other util programs etc ). The 1050Gb is for the house... which, given time, I'm hoping to get started on tomorrow. I've got a ton more software to install on the house system since I do a lot more there. In the mean time, I did switch out my old 22" LCD for a new 27" at the house.... makin' for a fun evening... :D
 
Tony

Tony

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What, no more lappy hooked up to a monitor at the office? lmao.

I have been wanting to build a new computer just because of the M.2 drives. Put a 1TB in there, no drive bays needed and setup a NAS over a 10GB connection... Oh, one can dream can't we lmao.
 
RandyDSok

RandyDSok

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Tony said:
What, no more lappy hooked up to a monitor at the office? lmao.

I have been wanting to build a new computer just because of the M.2 drives. Put a 1TB in there, no drive bays needed and setup a NAS over a 10GB connection... Oh, one can dream can't we lmao.
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The laptop has never been my main PC at work... the main PC is over on the workbench ( behind the monitor you saw over there ). I do often remote from the laptop over to the main PC though... just too lazy to get up and walk 5 foot... LMAO

My old systems don't support M.2 natively.... so I got M.2 to 2.5" drive adapters. This did limit me to using the NGFF type of M.2 SSDs ... I got the Crucial MX300 3D NAND series ones. The PCIe and NVMe can be a lot faster but as it is ... the 530/510Mb/s were a huge jump in performance anyways.
 
Tony

Tony

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I was going to suggest the pcie adapter for a little more speed rather than running it over sata. I'm not sure what my speed is on my 1TB ssd that I have now (Samsung 850 Pro and Samsung 850 Evo), but it's better than two 7200rpm disks in raid lmao. But I seriously need a new computer, especially once this new update comes out on the new Intel issues. I think my cpu is one of them that is going to lose 20-30%. Which is going to suck for rendering videos..... But, I just ordered a new block and all I need is a water pump and I'm going to put this computer under water. Then put a 1ghz OC on it. See where that gets me. But still, with that OC, if I'm hit for the max, I will be right back to stock speeds.... theoretically speaking that is.
 
Tony

Tony

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Well, just made an order for 20 feet of 22 AWG wire... At $0.37 a foot, I can't complain!
 
Tony

Tony

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So I just received a call from the company that I ordered the wire through and they only had 13 feet of the black 22 AWG wire. That is unfortunate. So I told them to just send me 10 feet of the black, and change it up to 5 feet of white and 5 feet of red. Too bad they don't have blue!
 
Tony

Tony

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You know that the two bugs they just found affect Apple as well, right? lmao.

I will say this though, for video editing and the like, you can't beat Apple. But for ease of use and customizability, Windows is where it's at.
 
Geena

Geena

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I didn`t realize we were here to slam each other, but it`s ok. If you had the friggin` problem with windows that I have had lately...maybe you`d try something different too. Try losing 2000+ (yes...2000+) photos because windows updated and reset my whole F-ing computer back to factory settings. So there ya have it.
 
Tony

Tony

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I promise you Geena, I was not trying to slam you in any way. Just giving you a bit of a hard time with the classic mac vs windows dispute. Now that I know why you updated (and if I had known, I would not have given you a hard time I can assure you) I can't say that I blame you. I didn't mean to upset you.
 
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