Wow, Newegg, Just Wow

So as many of you heard, FarCry 2 came out today. Ecstatic, I quickly left my Psych 140 midterm and went to the GameStop on Telegraph Ave., next to Chipotle. On the way, I stopped in front of Wheeler because I wanted to see if UPS had delivered my video card. After a few minutes of painful iPod Touch navigation, I finally reached the UPS tracking page. Since "Status" said "Delivered," I headed to Postal Annex with a stop off at Kips to get lunch. Seeing as how I spent over $700 a few days ago, I opted for the $3.95 daily special of Sweet and Sour Pork. (I probably should have just gone to Chipotle like my original plan, but the line was out the door.)

After playing some Texas Hold 'em on my Touch, I took my food and went across the street toward Postal Annex. For those of you who don't know what that is, it's a postal store that has mailboxes you can rent and ship stuff to so delivery drivers have no excuse for not being able to have someone sign for a package. After picking up my package from Newegg, I headed home to eat lunch, install FarCry 2, and watch some Top Gear (the one where they go to Africa--coincidentally, FC2 takes place in Africa). Even though I told myself I wouldn't play until the weekend, I ended up skipping my EE20 discussion (I lost track of time) to play until EE105 lecture at 4pm.

Speaking of EE105, there was an extremely cute Korean girl (she had an Asus Eee-PC with Korean Windows and Office 2k7) who came in and sat down in the row in front of me. Unfortunately I don't think she was in the class because she was making her schedule and had Econ, MCB, and Philosophy classes...I figured she was just someone's friend. Luckily, the professor didn't post lecture slides AND ran over time so she gave everyone credit on the quiz question.

After 105, I came home for a bit to finish my RCC meeting agenda, then quickly headed to the U1 ASC for the ASC meeting. I walked in to find vchu working on the printers, which put a big smile on my face because that meant I could bring the printer that doesn't require service back to the ASC. So after the RCC meeting, vchu and I spent some time setting up the printers at U1. Hopefully they work for more than a day...assuming the APC orders non-crappy toner. Hooray for public insitutions, no money to pay for laser toner!

So you're probably thinking, wow, this guy went on tangent after tangent after tangent...well that's too bad, maybe I won't do well in E190. The whole point of telling you about my day is that:

NEWEGG SENT ME THE WRONG VIDEO CARD.

I had ordered the EVGA GTX 280 SSC edition...and they sent me the SC edition. I mean sure the names look similar, but come on. For that, Newegg is getting a call at 8am where I shall demand they overnight me the correct card, and pay for return shipping on this card.

FarCry 2 isn't horrible on the 8800GTX...but it can always be better. Hope you enjoyed the story! I'm gonna go pass out now...


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I need credit cards...

Recently my fellow counterparts and I went on a purchasing spree (as you can see). While I had no intention of letting my carefree spending interfere with my education, it appears as though I'd rather press a "Purchase" button after filling out my billing and shipping information than study for a developmental psychology midterm.

On a happier note, Far Cry 2 comes out day, and being an avid gamer, I decided to pre-order it at my local GameStop. However, the geniuses at EA/Crytek decided it would be a good idea to ship them on the 21st, so that you can't get it anywhere (unless you download it) until tomorrow. I guess it's not THAT big a deal since I don't plan on playing it until the weekend, but that also means I didn't have to pay for 2nd day shipping on the video card I ordered last night. This weekend will be full of Far Cry 2 and GTX 280 sexyness. Unfortunately I just found out today that I have another Psych midterm, the psychology of sleep, on Monday. Oh well! Good thing I'm not a psych major...

In the past two days, I've managed to spend about $730 on a new video card and camera. While the video card could be slightly classified as an impulse buy (I need it to play Far Cry!), the camera wasn't...I've had my eye on a point-and-shoot for quite some time, and Dell happened to offer another coupon code. It's the same camera efung bought, except I opted for silver. I hope I made the right choice in not buying the 15MP SD990 that costs twice as much, but I already have a nice camera ^_^



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