crumbs of life

I’m leaving for cape cod tomorrow after work, I’ll be vacationing there until friday, which ought to be relaxing, though I might be a bit more relaxed if I had more time at work before I return to school. I have a whole lot of coding, testing, and documenting to do before I go back to Lehigh, and I’ll only have one week after vacation for work. I’ll probably be working overtime next week, and won’t finish all that I want to.

The nice thing about working and overtime is the money. I really want to get two of these. It looks like that would cost $1100, but I think I can get it down to ~$800, if not lower by the time I get it. Here’s how it would be done (legally, too): I can get a $50 mfgr discount at most places (like amazon) which drops it down to $500 each. Then, amazon offers a $50 electronics credit on large purchases (periodically), so I’d buy one, and spend the credit on the next monitor. I’d sell the last credit to someone for $40. I’d then sell my current monitor for at least $100 (it’s a beautiful black 19″ flat screen trinitron). Since a large sum of money (that is, all my money except about $50) went toward tuition last week, I need to be careful with my spending. I also need to make sure I’ll get my job back over the winter so that I’ll have some money for next semester. Dual flats would increase my desk space and screen space, both of which would be helpful. $800 more helpful? I’m not quite sure. It would be great to have, though… and the ladies like LCD, I would assume.

I’m putting debian back on my laptop. Red hat is good, but it’s just not flexible enough for me, it seems. Home sweet debian.

When I started this journal, I was afraid that I’d have nothing to write, but I sure have been churning out books for the last week! I think that’s a sign I should get a paid account.