Excessive whining ahead!

Well, there was a LAN party today. Only... it wasn't reall much of a LAN. Seriously, these things are losing value. I go to a LAN party expecting to play games, but we played so much other random junk... Magic, football, 500... Not that they weren't fun, but I sure didn't need to take apart my computer and move it around (god knows it hates it anyway) to play 500 or Magic. Next time there's a LAN party, I demand we play only LAN games. Demand. No playing RO at a LAN party. That is not what it is for. Period.

That was both the good news and the bad news, so on to regular life. I have 6 days of World of Warcraft left before I can't play (no money). I'd pay more, but I seriously need every penny I have now. I need to get $50 to Pat, I need new headphones (mine broke yesterday night, although they were free and lasted two years so I'm ok with it), and I really want to get a whole new computer. My CD drives are failing on me (they were free too after rebates...), and the rest of it (except for my new harddrive & peripherals) is at least two years old. Also, unless you play around with the monitor enough, it will shade the entire screen in a different color. I've had many different colors before including: red, yellow, purple, green, and shades between. I'm hoping to get a nice, large LCD monitor (19"?) with at least 70Hz refreshes both vertical & horizontal. Don't get me wrong, it's still pretty fast (although 1.8GHz is slow by today's standards), and it still works, so I can live with it for a while longer... I just don't want to.

As I mentioned, my headphones broke. This opens up some new options... Obviously, I need new ones. I can listen on older headphones that haven't broke yet, but they naturally suck. Also, they don't go behind my head, and I really love that kind. The ones I'm currently using have a cable that's too short so it goes right over my keyboard, making it semi annoying to type. Again, I can live with it, but I don't want to. Therefore, I need new ones. The question: should I get super expensive (when I get money, that is--I can wait for a while I suppose) headphones that cover your entire ears so you can't hear anything else and the quality is amazing, or should I get some $20-30 headphones with a mic attached somehow? I'll obviously need money for either solution, seeing as I have about $35 currently, and ACEN is going to cost me another $50 (that I'm giving to Pat, hence I owe Pat $50).

College bad things: Hendrick House is now full. Because I was a FUCKING IDIOT I didn't preregister. Now I don't even have a place to live while I'm down there. I don't have the housing registration forms either, so I don't know what the hell I'm going to do. I think I'll be forced to email them and ask them what the heck I'm supposed to do because I was such an idiot. Dammit. Also, I need lots more money to pay for UIUC. I think I'll be forced to take out a loan, go through the first year there, work the entire time, hope I keep up B average at least, and then pay it all back over a summer or something. I don't like that idea at all though, because I hate the idea of owing somebody else money who's going to charge interest on me. I'm a pretty cheap guy, and I like to save my money when I can. I blame that on my parents for never giving me an allowance when I was little. To be fair, I would probably have bought a bunch of stuff that now I would hate and trash though. If I had somehow thought of keeping all that money & then later getting something amazingly awesome, though...

Adion is currently listening to: Armin van Buuren - A State of Trance 169-2 (10/7/04) [53:15]