Rant #045 Sunday, June 27, 2004

New machine!

Although I should get a larger Wacom tablet to carry around with this new laptop, it's still working fairly well for drawing outside of the studio, which, at the moment, is simply far too hot to work in for any length of time.

New laptop, 2.4 AMD 64-bit, 512MB RAM, 60GB Hard Drive, four USB 2.0 ports, and a DVD Burner... though I don't think I'm going to actually use the DVD Burner on it too much.

I had to get a good laptop because there's no air conditioning in the studio and the computers in there heat the place up to well over 90?F during the summer.

The file server died. Just, died. Doesn't even turn on now... it's probably the power supply. That, and the CD-ROM broke on the main workstation so I cannibalized the CD-ROM from the dead file server. :P

During the summer, most people probably think, "I wish it were winter so I wouldn't be sweating to death". Well, at least those of us who have to live without air conditioning (I might move soon because of that very reason.) In the Winter, mostly everything thinks, "I wish it were summer, hot as it can be." Temperature extremes can really limit productivity. >:( Stingy landlords, bleah.

Well, just had to rant about all that. The re-draws are coming along kind of slowly, and for now I'll just blame it on the heat. Later!