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Last year a friend of mine and his wife purchased their first home. They have 5 bedrooms with two and a half bathrooms. They currently have two children, so they were going to have two bedrooms to use as guest rooms for the time being. My friend asked his wife if she would be okay with letting him turn one of the rooms into a sort of game room until they actually needed to use the room for another child. She told him that he could do whatever he wanted to with that room and it could be his little area that only he uses if that’s what he wanted to do with it. Since then, he has purchased four full size arcade games and 3 game tables for the room. The arcade games didn’t work when he purchased them, so he had me put new computers in them so that he could run any arcade game he wanted and select them right from an on-screen menu. He has gotten rid of the game tables and replaced them with a huge high definition television. Anytime there is a football or basketball game on, it’s usually me, him and a few other guys in that room watching the game on TV and playing his arcade games. I would like to do something similar in the basement of my home, I just dont have the spare time or money at the moment.

I was looking on POSGuys.com the other day and came across some pretty decent deals on POS systems. A friend of mine is setting up his own little retail store and I am helping him get everything ready and trying to find the best deals on everything he will need. The POS system was the last major thing that we needed to order. Now he is ready to scan bar codes and get everything going.

My office recently sold a few of their Sony Vaio notebook computers to employees. The employees with the best performance got to pick through the notebooks before anyone else. The one I picked out was a Z Series Vaio and looks like it has never even been used. I know that the Z Series notebooks go for between $1,500 and $3,000, so when I saw it, I grabbed it quick. I was going to sell it on eBay or something, But I’ll probably end up keeping it or giving it to my girlfriend as an extra Christmas bonus gift or something. I haven’t told her about it yet, so it would make a nice surprise.

About two months ago I ordered a new Western Digital 1TB My Book Essential USB 2.0 external hard drive. I love this thing! I use it on an hourly basis for backing up project data at work and when I work on my home computer and it has worked flawlessly. I do a lot of video editing and I’m thinking about buying another external hard drive for those sort of media projects. Hopefully I can find one cheap during the upcoming Black Friday sales.

My daughter was enrolled in High School this year. There were so many different items she needed to buy. First we bought her all the new clothing and shoes. After that, we shopped for, and bought, all the classroom supplies that she needed. After we were almost ready to relax and thinking about everything being bought and all she had to do was start school, we started thinking of one more thing. We decided that since she always made such good grades and did so well in school, we would purchase a new computer for our home. That would really help her a lot with school assignments. We bought a computer and got it all set up and ready to use, before noticing it was missing one thing we still needed to buy. We needed a CAT5e cable to finish hooking up printer, USB, and other hardware. I have no idea how our friend hooked it all up, but it is finally hooked up and ready to use.

My sister recently became ill with several serious conditions. Her computer is in her office on the upstairs level of her home. She no longer was able to walk upstairs during her treatments she was taking. It was very important that she use her computer every day for personal use and business. Due to the way her home was situated and the size of the rooms, there was no way possible for her to bring her entire computer system downstairs to the living room where she was staying most of the time. After thinking of a solution to this problem, she decided to purchase a laptop computer. It was wonderful how she was able to use it without moving all her furniture around and making huge arrangements to the home. She now sits on her couch, in her living room, and uses her new laptop on a daily basis and is so comfortable doing so. The cost was very reasonable and she even has a printer connected to it.

I think it’s time to upgrade my computer memory again. The last time I added more RAM to my computer It seemed to run a little smoother, but I didn’t really add enough to see a significant difference. I think this time I’m going to add 3gb to it. I don’t see how I can go wrong with 3gb. I love video editing and other media editing, so this should be perfect.

A while back I helped a friend of mine add some home theater seating to his entertainment room. He has a very nice projector and a state of the art sound system as well. I am truly jealous. I’m going to end up charging five grand to my credit card trying to duplicate what he has, in my own house. My girlfriend is probably going to kill me if I do it.

A while back I was driving home from work and I found a huge box of CAT6 cable laying next to the dumpster at a local business. I wasn’t sure if it was supposed to be trash or if someone just sat it there and forgot about it, so I walked in and asked the lady at the front desk. She said that they recently had all of their network and everything rebuilt and that the cable was just left over from the job. There is probably close to 800 feet worth of cable in the box. Being the computer and electronics freak that I am, this absolutely made my day.

I’ve been complaining that the flash memory in my digital camera is too small for about a year now. Last week a friend of mine showed me a website that sells a huge variety of memory cards and memory sticks for very decent prices and I now have a new 4gb memory card in my camera. I can’t believe I waited this long to upgrade from the factory 60mb memory. It’s a whole lot nicer being able to store more than 30 pictures at a time.