Got a new outlook!

Well, maybe not a new outlook on life, but I do have new PC. One of my co-workers provided it to me. Its my first real experience with Windows Vista. I am using the Ultimate edition. After a few errors that were fixed in about a day, I'm really starting to like Vista. I need to get a larger hard drive to hold the OS, but for right now the 80 gigs are sufficient.

My only gripe was with the way I had to activate the OS. I had to call up the Microsoft activation hotline, but talking with the activation customer agent was very easy and quick. Other than that the control panel icons disappeared on me, but after a fresh install that was fixed. Since the new install I haven't seen any errors since.

I love the new Dreamscenes gadget. Its like icing on top of the cake. I have several Dreamscenes that I can choose from that are really cool. I currently have a mountain waterfall as my Dreamscene background. The new PC is better able to handle instense software, such as: Window Media Center.

World of Warcraft is running really well on the new PC. I wish I was seeing higher framerates in the main cities, but its expected since they are highly populated.

All in all, I'm really liking it.

Well, hopefully this won't be only post I have for the next six months.

Wha..wha..what is this?

Is it bird, is it plane, ... is it Superman?

Hell, no its your friendly blogger, Joel. After beating the warpath back home from Pittsburgh, I lived back at home for awhile. But now I live in the D.C. Metro area.

It's been almost a year since my last post. Well, whats new with my life? You might have noticed the new site. Let me explain. I did like my old site, and it was good to me for a while. But I tried going back to it, and updating it. That was just too hard to do. I don't know whats up with the Bravenet coding, but anytime I tried to modify it; it would just start to act up. I just decided to start up on a new more simple site. I hope you like it. I don't know if will do any more tech posts considering I work all day long with computers. But if I find something really interesting I might just give you all a heads up.

So on with the news. I'm not dating anybody, still single. I did date someone for about two weeks, but I just didn't feel that we had any emotion connection between us. My grandpa keeps asking when I am going to meet someone, and start having kids. Oh, about my grandparents, they moved to live out west with one of my aunts. This really sucks, because the center home of our family was West Virginia. But that will just have to change now.

I have a great job working for the National Science Foundation. I am one of their tech support people at the NSF's helpdesk. Living in the D.C. Metro area has really been a blessing. To tell you the truth I really wanted to live close to D.C. all my life, and now I have that. Score one for me. I share an apartment with three other people, but I have pretty decent room by myself. The only thing that sucks is that I still don't have a clothes washer/dryer in the apartment.

Anyway, I hope you all like the new site. Please feel free to post comments.

Next: What I've done and where I've been thats interesting in the D.C. Metro area.