Dark Liquid

Haven’t done an update in a while… eep!

Work

Work is busy as usual, too many jobs, not enough hours in the day. We are coping, but my overtime is reaching ridiculous levels which isn’t good for the companies bank balance or my sanity.

Computer

Since getting back into Oblivion again, I felt I needed to get a new graphics card t replace my bottom of the bottom range nVidia 7300GS PCIe card. I got myself a nice EVGA 7950GT 512MB and it is performing nicely. I’ve been using WINE for playing Oblivion as it tends to have better performance over Cedega 6, though with WINE my sound is screwed up and certain graphical effects don’t work / are wrong, but it a matter of time till it gets sorted.

Downloaded Xubuntu Feisty today so I am looking forwards to installing that alongside my Xubuntu Edgy install (I don’t want to dist-upgrade since I’ve fiddled so much with my install and its full of unmanaged crap and junk).

Stuff

I bought myself some new stuff, a signed copy of Leaving Eden – Antimatter’s new album (which kicks ass by the way) and have got Porcupine Tree’s new album on order along with the new China Mieville book ‘Un Lun Dun’. I’m looking forwards to by pre-ordered book by Neal Asher – Hilldiggers. Other than the above I’ve been fairly good with my expenditure. I’ll have to be because I’ve got saving to do…

Good news

You may know that me and Dru are buying a flat via a shared-equity scheme. Well, so far things are going pretty well, we were made an offer, grabbed a 2 bed flat, signed some forms, signed some more forms, signed even more forms and set off our reservation fee, so, all going well, we’ll have a flat soon once we organise a mortgage and have the solicitors sign off on it all. It’s all looking pretty positive though so far!