Phendrana Drifts

After a good deal of thinking and fretting I decided to buy a new computer. The major motive was to get a rig capable of playing Civilization V but honestly it had been a long time coming. I had a rather bargain basement PC purchased in 2004 but it had long seen better days and was consigned to the basement after a unfortunate incident with the power supply. Rather than buy a new supply we decided to instead buy two new PCs last year specifically for Allie and Raven, which isn’t to say I didn’t use it. All of this material humming and hawing aside, the reality is it had been quite awhile since I had a computer at home and it was a necessary need.

I ordered it on October 4, scheduled to arrive and be deployed in that empty space you see above on around October 18. I’m pretty excited.

We bought a new desk that essentially is a 2 metre-long plank with very little else. It is a modular design from Ikea so there is the eventual plan to go out and get more but for now it works great in the space we have and will allow Allie and I to share a desk in comfort. Or at least I assume depending on the size of the tower that will arrive shortly.

The new computer is also significant in that it will be the first Windows PC I will have worked on regularly in quite awhile – I work in a Mac environment at work for the last four years and while I am happy with OSX it simply doesn’t play most of the games I’m looking at. I’m a little worried mind you, as I am far out of practice with Windows. Allie and Raven’s PCs are administered by me, but really I don’t spend everyday or even every week on them and my knowledge of Vista is scant let alone Windows 7 which I’ve never even touched.

I hope to update the blog a little on experiences returning to a PC after a long absence as well as spending some time with a gaming computer in general.

Of course, if the computer takes much longer to get here, I may just use the blog to pine for its arrival.