Decided.

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I believe I am going to upgrade my downgrade and just build one machine.  The main reason for a first machine was trying to be cheap.  Though it would have been nice to have a dedicated, off-line, gaming rig... I don't have that kind of money.  My previous attempts at building a gaming rig were proving far too expensive.  I kept hitting, I think, right at $2.5k.  Too much.  Even when I have it, I just won't do it.  Even though I play, and compute, and blog, and browse, much of my time, I just... can't go over some points.  When I was young and sure to be dead imminently, it didn't matter.  My machines were $3.5k monsters, for their time.  No more.  A third of that makes me flinch.

With this machine, if it proves a bit weak in the near future, I have some upgrade capacity.  Adding a second graphics board, RAM, even cooling, would be a snap, and rather affordable by that time.  It won't beat top, or even serious second tier machines.  But I don't need it to do so.  Compared to even a new console, it cooks that.  Plus, if I want to mess with mods, I can.  Computer gaming is simply much better than console gaming.  And it doesn't eat my television.  I ought to get rid of that dinosaur.  Then again, maybe I can figure out how to hook my television and computer up, so that I can... ruin the television this way!  :)  Damn kids.

I'll keep saving.  The hope, after the fixes and upgrades on my home are done, is to get into solar power.  Enough to run some lights and the computer.  While the world burns, I can just... keep playing.  With a minor refrigerator/freezer, enough stocks in this and that, a few firearms for those who might wish for what they could have but didn't choose and communal security, and popcorn.  I really ought to get some more of that stocked up.  Never mind, just some thoughts.

Doesn't look like the tree trimming will get done today.  I'll have to try to do that on my own.  I had asked him something.  He was going to ask the wife.  I was pretty sure what that meant, but... now I know.  Don't worry.  I knew that gig.  It's, when I have had women, how I used to say "No.", without saying it, too.  :)  Dang kids.  Think I don't know the score.  Ha!

Later.