Tech Thursday and other stuff

Hello again.

Ok enough depressing stuff!

Tech Thursday.

I'm working on Stacy on 2 different tech items.  One:  A smart phone for her.  I'm luring her in with games on my android Samsung Epic.  She has discovered "Words with Friends".  She LOVES scrabble and is quickly becoming addicted.  And Angry Birds, Collapse and other games.

The other item is a bigger monitor for my main/game computer.  I have a 22" which she got for me as a surprise birthday gift 4 years ago.  And I have to say it was one of the best gifts she ever got me.  It was an upgrade from an old 17" CRT.

But I've had monitor envy since playing on a friends 25".  Me want.  But me cannot justify.  However, their is new hope.  Stacy is working from home now on Friday's using Connect to my PC to hook into her work computer.  She really likes my 22" big monitor...I'm trying to sell her on having 2 big monitors to use on the same computer.  Extended desktop ftw.

Then, their are phones for me!  I get my yearly upgrade from Sprint in November.  The multiple new dual core android phones have me quite excited.  But what I'm really eyeing now is the Nexus Prime aka Samsung Nexus Prime or several other names.  Its the straight "Google" phone without any of the extra manufacture UI stuff.  Otherwise, despite how much my Samsung Epic annoys me, the Samsung Epic Tough (Samsung Galaxy SII) dual core phones are at the top of the upgrade list.

Computer wise I'm pretty good.  I upgraded my CPU earlier this year to an i7-870, 8 gig ddr3 ram, win7 pro 64 bit etc.  My video card is a bit older, a GTX280, and is next on the upgrade list. 

Some games coming out I'm looking forward too also.
Modern Warfare 3 comes out in November (already preordered on Steam)
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic before years end (preordered)

Then I just got Call of Duty: MW2 on steam for $30 bucks so I can play the single player missions and a coop mission with my friend Aragith.  Won't touch the MP on that game with a 10 foot pole.

So I get to game some tonight.  I employed the rarely failing tactic (though expensive one) of encouraging my wife to go to the Casino with her mom for a few hours.  They play penny slots so its not usually to bad.  Nathan just went to sleep in his crib...so its time for some ME time!  yay!

-out