I may have failed but I will not give up.

What's this? I still blog? Yes. Yes, I do. It's been a bit of a doozie the last two weeks or so.

Two weeks ago I got very sick. A stomach bug knocked me on my butt. I spent the day in bed except for the times that I was rushing for the nearest toilet to revisit my previous meals. It was terrible. I completely wrecked my throat. All week I felt drained. I decided to give myself a week off from blogging to convalesce. The rest of my week consisted of me coming home from work just to go straight to bed. If I did anything with anyone it was noted that I was only a shell of myself. I started to feel better about six days later.

So why has it been two weeks since my last entry? My computer has been extremely angry with me. I'm realizing that I may have caused it more so than I realized. For days my computer would come on and be on for hours, like 6 hours, and have difficulty responding to commands. I'm used to my computer needing some time to warm up. I've had it for almost eight years, not to mention I didn't know a thing about computers so I bought it with a laughable amount of RAM. I didn't even know to look for that sort of thing when I bought it. Actually after doing some digging I found that my computer has 512 MB of RAM and 70 GB of memory. Absolutely insane. I've since upped the RAM to 2 GB.

All of that being said, I cut the relationship between the external hard drive and my CPU sooner than it cared. It caused my computer to freeze. I had to force it to shut down. Once I started it up again, it still spent issues responding to me. I finally am having success now choosing to keep my computer disconnected from my external hard drive. Unlike automatically having it connected from the beginning. With my abysmal amount of hard drive space juxtaposed to my ever growing music collection, I can't keep my music stored my laptop anymore. Anywho, this last freeze up has caused me to get off my butt about getting a new one. I am officially deciding to replace my baby. I got seven and a half years of use from her. I feel sad to let her go, but part of my 2014 project requires way more computing power than I have. It's time.

I'm upgrading. Saying goodbye to the beautiful machine that kept me sane for almost eight years. Upgrading from 2 GB to 8 GB. Going from 70 GB of memory to 1 TB. It's on.