Journal

55 parts; few dollars.

55 Parts

I’ve decided to take a different approach to work in what I hope is the final run-in for the first draft. I wrote down all the parts that I’ve yet to complete, totalling 55, and will be working to finish them up part by part. I’ve already crossed of one of them because it was just short of a few words and I did that just now. Well, here’s hoping that it really is the final stretch.

Money

Holidays should be about spending money. You shouldn’t have to worry too much about spending on this or that. Particularly not during the Great Singapore Sale. But I’m trying really hard to avoid overspending. Yesterday I was at the PC Show (Is it the PC Show? Or is it the IT Show? IT Fair?) and thought of buying a couple of things, mostly memory in the form of SD cards, flash drives and portable hard disks. I never got to it because I thought I had to be careful with my money even if reasonably sized SDHC cards and flash drives go for fifteen bucks these days.

Which is just as well because Steam put up offers for Morrowind and Oblivion, the first of which I’ve been meaning to get to and the latter I already own on disc but without the expansions/DLC, so it was all good.

Computing, Et Cetera

Speaking of the IT Show, I was actually looking at computers because my desktop probably has to be replaced like very soon, particularly since Office 2010 is starting to show up on systems, so now is probably as good a time as ever. I had been looking for a notebook thinking that I need one, but I don’t think so anymore, and I can’t find one that really attracts me anyway.

I was also looking for camera upgrades, as you know, and I was thinking of a smaller camera. I’m still fluctuating, though. I kind of think now that I’m leaning more towards getting my two-lens Nikon kit and maybe upgrading the body in the future. If I can find a respectable second-hand lens and bear to part with the money, that is. We’ll see. But since I’m a little short on funds, I guess my indecision is a good thing. And so is my change of plans with the notebook.

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