I love technology.

Every now and then an idea will come to my head that just has to come to fruition. There are no ifs, ands or buts. If I don't follow through with it, it will sit in my mind and just bother me until I eventually give in. I have very little will power when these things happen and 99% of the time, it's related to purchasing technology products. So what sparked this?

2 or 3 weeks ago, I got back into playing World of Warcraft. Before then, it had been a good 5 or 6 months since I had played. Now, I'm by no means a hardcore gamer. I wouldn't even consider myself hardcore when it comes to playing this particular game but as of late, the sheer choppiness of my video card has started to bug me. Now, as I said, I'm not a hardcore gamer and that is reflected by my computer. I have a Mac mini and a Macbook...both with the not-so-great Intel GMA950 video card. The game is playable with all the settings on low; still a bit choppy, but playable. Now, I wouldn't have had a care in the world about the graphics if Apple didn't just release their new Mac mini's with a better video card. Shit. So, in comes the idea that I need to improve my graphics and I've been obsessed with coming up a way to do this.

Before I did that though, I tried upgrading my current set up. I went out and maxed out the RAM in my mini. There was very little improvement. What else? My parents and my sister need a new home computer and I've been pushing them to splurge and drop a few hundred for a Mac mini (this was before "the idea" came into my head). So now, I'm negotiating for them to buy the one I currently have so I can go out and buy the new one. I'm even giving them a pretty good deal, TAX FREE! Ugh...this is becoming so very sad. I'm at work every morning looking at specs on the machine. I'm waiting for someone to post a review on how the game runs on these new minis but even that is barely holding me back. I MUST HAVE IT.

Stupid ideas. I was hoping this entry would alleviate "the idea" but instead, I'm just wanting to finish this up so I can go search for more info. BAH!

I knew it!

I can be a very angry person sometimes. I've somewhat learned how to supress it. Sometimes, I'm able to just step back and see things from the other perspective. The world would be such a nicer, calmer place if everyone did that. For instance, what do you think of when a car horn sounds off? Most of the time, I'll look at someone who's doing it and see that they're pretty pissed off. All the while, this person has no idea what's going on ahead of them. Could it be that someone was struck by a car and traffic is at a stand still? Did someone's car stall? There are many possibilities.

I'll be the first to admit that I get a little ahead of myself behind the wheel sometimes. Mostly, it's when I'm in a rush so I'm not thinking straight in the first place. It's no excuse, but is probably the reason I get pissy. Anyways, I'm trying to segway into my original idea.

I've been taking the train to work since I've moved into my new place. I get into the same car when I go to work every morning. A lot of other people do too. There are the regulars I see every morning. I've come up with nicknames for them (for myself only) to identify them if I'm thinking to myself (it's about an hour to work; my mind wanders). There's these 2 dudes who are always on the train which I always had a weird feeling about. They've never said or done anything to me, nor have I witnessed them doing anything to anyone else. Just the look of their faces have always irked me, hence their label -- "the douchebags". One of the guys just always has this smirk on his face. It's kind of like he did something bad or wrong and he's so proud of it. The other dude is like his side kick and just laughs at everything he said.

This morning, I arrived at the station, parked my car and got out. As I was about to walk through the parking lot, a car zoomed by me. It's a parking lot, fairly icy and the car raced by. Luckily, I wasn't too much in the car's path but I did have to move rather quickly to get out of the way. It was a long 3 seconds. As I jumped back, I looked into the passenger side window of the car only to see a man looking back at me with a smirk -- THE smirk -- the one that made it seem like he knew he did something bad or wrong and is just so proud of it.

Thank you, sir. You've cemented your nickname as "the douchebag". I knew it.

Reboot

What's with the name?

If you've ever had to pick out a name on the internet for anything, you'll know that all the good ones are taken. This leaves you to append numbers, underscores or hyphens to the end of everything. The other big option for blog titles are oxymorons. Things like loud silence or harsh mellow. Yak.

Some people are ok with it. I'm not. "thedirtyone" was already taken and so was "dirtyone". I like to have a clean (see what I did there?), simple thing going for me. So no easy names to pick. What now? Well, I go to one of my favorite things for advice. Professional wrestling. Don't judge. Maybe I'll post something about wrestling one day.

Sunset flip is a common wrestling move. Sounded ok. The graphic is alright. Done.

Now what?

Well, perhaps I'll be a little more clever about how to get my frustrations out. Maybe I'll still blog about them but use code or different keywords. I guess we'll wait and see what's next.