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current tune: gratitude - feel alright
this weekend, the wifest and i did our best to spend ourselves into the poorhouse. we bought her a new camera

that's a canon digital rebel XT. we went with a canon so that we could also use the lens from my rebel 2000. since we went through microcenter (since they give us financing) they only had the camera as a bundle, not just a body. that turned out ok, though, since the lens in the bundle was an 18-55, and my old lens is 28-80. my lens didn't work at first, but magically started working after taking a few pictures with the 18-55.
then there's me. i bought a raid controller and 3 sata drives, so i no longer have to worry about losing any of the files on my hard drive. after hearing about one of my mom's friends losing his entire portfolio because it wasn't backed up, and after losing a hard drive once and having to reload all of my music from cd's, raid 5 makes me feel veeeeeerry comfortable. mmore hard drives means more connections and more power, though. so i had to get a new power supply. i got one of those fancy modular ones, so the inside of my computer is actually more open, even though there's more stuff in it. plus the power supply now exhausts air from the case, so my cpu should stay cooler. and the whole thing's quieter, too.
not that we'd be able to hear it over the air conditioner, anyways, but still a perk. after broiling all day friday and saturday, i finally put the thing in on sunday. turns out we could have just stuck it in the window, no bracing required. oh well.