MacBros' Place |

Well I’m spent. I spent a lot of time trying to get this thing to center, but I think since I’m using the CSS float: left; code that might not be possible, unless somebody out there has a fix. I even have the entire DIV tags for the left sidebar, right sidebar, and posting area embedded inside a container dive that I tried to center.
Oh well, it’s not that big of a deal to me, but it would be nice to have these float centered.

Then later in the day while trying to do multiple tasks on this old computer, I got so frustrated with the slowness of it, it took like 30 seconds just to open up a folder, and about 1 minute to open Flash, so I finally caved for a new one.
Since nobody would touch my credit with a thousand foot pole, I called MDG. I opted for the Vision 4100TV Computer System that includes:

• 17″ LCD Monitor
• Lexmark Photo Printer (Free after Mail in Rebate)
• Intel Pentium4 @ 3.02GHz
• 512 MB DDR-RAM
• Intel Hyper-Threading Main-board with a PCI Express slot
• DVD+/-RW at 16X
• MS Multimedia Keyboard(Be kinda hard to use without one ya’ think?)
• MS Optical Mouse (Shouldn’t this be a given too?)
• 250 GB Western Digital Serial ATA Hard Drive at 7200 rpm(This beats the 10GB one I have right now )
• Altec Lansing 121 speakers with Bass-Woofer(Should be interesting to add with my current Logitech System)
• Windows XP Preloaded (In other words, no copy on CD, but I have my own.)
• Three year warranty (one year parts and three labour warranty)
• And a bunch of software that I’ll probably never use: MS Software Bundle: MS Word, Encarta Encyclopedia 2005, Money 2005, Picture IT, and Streets & Trips 2005 (530.00 value if purchased separately, FREE!)

So I’ll probably be getting it here in the next week or so. I’ll be paying for it forever at their minimum payment of $60.00 a month, but fortunately there is no early payoff penalty if I make bigger payments.

I was due for a new system, this PIII 600Mhz is really bogging down, maybe I’ll convert it to a Linux box and run my server on it. I’ll have to buy a Wireless Router to get that done.

I had to get Brian, the guy from MDG to fax the form to the post office down the road, so I could fill them out and send them back ASAP. I got all the way to the mall (a 10 minute fast walk) and realized I forgot to bring a Voided check with me, so I ran all the way back home, well ok, I had to stop several times to catch my breath because I’m out of shape, but anyway, got home and did the same thing on the way back, run ten steps, walk 20 then trot, gasp for air……. I was in a hurry because I thought the place was going to close at 5pm, it was 4:30pm when I first headed out.
I get to the post office, sweating bullets because it’s actually warm out, trying to catch my breath, I say to the lady at the desk, ” I *huff* *huff*, I… *pant* have a *take deep breath* fax to receive? *huff* *pant* *gasp*”
I proceed to sign them and get them sent back to Brian.
I then say to the lady, “Damn I just made it! Hoooo *pant* *huff*”
She replies, “We’re open till 10pm.” with a giggle and a smirk on her face.
She looked like she enjoyed telling me that too, as my jaw dropped to the floor and as I was wiping the sweat from my brow.
With my sinacle personality, I would have enjoyed telling somebody that they ran their ass of for nothing too.

Well I’m going to go lay down and watch the idiot box for the rest of the evening. Survivors on tonight too.

I’ll work on this template some more tomorrow.