I have to preface with this, I am a programmer, not a carpenter. Anyway, let’s move on to the meaty part shall we? This summer, I was building my girlfriend a computer, then the problem of the case came up. I wanted it to be somewhat small, nice, and cheap. There were several nice, small cases that costed $70! There was no way I’m going to spend that much money given the financial situation that I am in. I decided to look around the house and I had this really old computer that was given to me a few years back. I don’t know it’s actual age, but it was struggling to run the OS that it had on there, Windows 98 SE. If any of you can determine the age, let me know, here’s what it looks like stripped.

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This is one busy semester for me. The end is in sight since I only have one semester left and I’ll join the rest of the workforce, hopefully some time in January 2009. What exactly has been going on with me? Let me break down what I have to do each week,

- Five classes: they add up to 15 credits. Including homework, I think I spend about 30 hours a week total dealing with just school stuff.
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