And by getting, I mean that I'm recieving a stream of parts through the mail to build a new $500 video editing/gaming/game development rig.

Once I finish building it, the only thing holding me back will be sucky Comcast internet!!!

It has finally arrived... What has arrived you ask? MY NEW COMPUTER, NO LONGER WILL I HAVE TO READ FIMFICTIONS ON A PHONE OR IPAD BUT NOW ON A COMPUTER!!! yay...

ODDITY
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YOUR NEW COMPUTER AND YOU

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I spent the last 12 hours assembling and struggling with my new computer, discovering the joys of everything from poorly applied thermal paste to improperly connected memory to not-entirely-plugged-in SATA drives.

But at last, I finally live in the world of the SSD, with 32 gigabytes of RAM.

Right now, my computer is installing Windows 10 (huzzah for free OS upgrades), and while it still has my old video card in it (and likely will for several months), it is otherwise up and running.

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Apparently, I spoke far too soon. I left my new computer on last night to update itself to Windows 10, and this morning when I woke up, it was no longer functional. The case lights will come on, but none of the fans will, the motherboard lights indicate no errors, but nothing happens, and it won't even POST (that is to say, go to the BIOS stuff). I've tried just about

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IN WHICH I FINISHED A THING
Okay, before I say what I actually need to, I'd like to share this. It dropped yesterday and is amazing.

Have I mentioned lately how much I love Laura Brehm? Well, I do. She has an angel's voice. Anyway, on to news.

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I need some advice on whether or not a solution is a good idea.

So, my new computer stopped working today, in what appeared to be exactly the same way as the last one.

"Not again!" I cried.

So, I pulled out my motherboard, but before totally disassembling it, I decided to breadboard it.

It worked.

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I've FINALLY got my new computer all set up and back from it's data transfer. Horse words should resume shortly. Enemy of Mine is certainly my top priority, writing-wise, and I've probably been set back by y'know, not having a computer. However, I might do a quick one shot or two to flex my writing powers, get used to the new keyboard, etc. Highly unlikely to be anything magnificent, but words are nice. Also, I would like to show off something potentially related to new stories.

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Well, that took a while - close to a full month - but I now have a fully functional desktop computer again. It is so nice having these 1080/1200p screens back.

Now all I have to do is redownload and reinstall everything. Microsoft Office, Adobe's suite, Steam...

Bahamut is dead.

Long live Celestia!