Random Thoughts of Mine...

This past weekend was pretty good for me. I bought a new PC on Friday, went to see a documentary film with one of my friends on Saturday, and went to a birthday gathering at a friend's house on Sunday.

Friday afternoon, I headed to a small, local computer shop that I had been to before. Months ago, I had taken my 7-year-old Gateway PC there because the power supply had gone bad on it. I went back and purchased the last new computer with WinXP on it that he had in stock. Since I was a returning cutstomer, he gave me a free upgrade from a 19" to a 20" monitor on the new Dell that I purchased. This computer is much faster than the one that I had been used to. I love this widescreen LCD display on it too. I had a 17" CRT monitor with the older computer, so this is much better. I made sure that the computer had Windows XP on it instead of Vista. Some of the IT guys that I know told me that if you have a PC with less than 2GB of memory on it, then you can forget about Vista running well. Plus there have been lots of problems with Vista. A friend told me today that her dad recently purchased a new PC with Vista on it, and she hated it. She was trying to get him hooked up to the network, but she was having lots of problems with Vista. Even Intel says it will not upgrade its computers to Vista. So, I think that I'll keep Windows XP for quite a while.

On Saturday afternoon, I went with a friend of mine to see the documentary film, Up the Yangtze. Before the movie, we went to eat at a Turkish restaraunt that we had visited before. The food was good and I would like to eat there again. Up the Yangtze is about the human toll that the building of the Three Gorges Dam, the largest hydro-electric dam in the world, is having on the people who have to be relocated. It mostly follows a peasant family that live on the banks of the Yangtze River. Their oldest child has graduated middle school, but the family doesn't have the money to send her to high school. She is sent off to work on one of the cruise ships that ferries tourists up and down the river. The movie follows the family and many other people who are forced to move because their land will soon be underwater. About 2 million people are being displaced because of the dam project. This is an interesting film that shows the human toll that the relocatees are having to face.

Sunday evening, I went to a friend's house for her birthday, which is today. It was a nice evening hanging out with some nice friends. I had also bought a new all-in-one printer and speakers for the computer. Came back here, hooked everything up and enjoyed it all. I had a wonderful weekend, relaxing weekend, even though I had worked Saturday morning.


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