#built a computer

[fireyalex]

So for a while, my computer case has been a little broken and I've had to lay it on its side to not break it further. A couple weeks ago, I got a new case and I was too impatient to wait for my dad to get home to help me the next day, So I immediately got started.

I took apart my computer and transferred everything to the mew case, building a computer for the first time. I was able to do most of it on my own, and even when my dad was available he just watched and didn't step in until I asked him.

So here's the computer I build during then

[timetolawl]

Lovely Lonesome night.

After spending half my day building a computer from old scrap pieces (MIND YOU IT WORKS :D) and reading half of the book World War Z I felt tired and sad. Just felt disconnected from my interests lately and today I revived them :D 

However I felt a need to go for a walk down by the river front and look out to the city. I took my moleskin with me and sat there in the blithering cold. I sketched the skyline and imagined what kind of algorithm I could write up that could ever create the panic attack that is the NYC skyline. 

After the cold got to me I sat in starbucks for an hour just reading a little more world war z and sketching, sketching the strangers that came in and out. Its weird for me going an entire day without really talking to anyone, with the exception of a few phone calls thats really it.

I really enjoyed today and its personal intimacy it offered. I should do this more often, although I dont know how many more desktops I really need seeing as I have built my fourth computer and have no need for anymore haha. Ill stick to sketching, writing, reading, and some simple algorithms for now. But still its these kinda quiet tinkering days and nights that I hope to share with my future boyfriend whomever he may be.

Although I think what was interesting was the Quote from world war Z I forwarded my old Mico-Econ professor which stated:

“The only rule that ever made sense to me I learned from a history, not an economics, professor at Wharton. “Fear,” he used to say, “fear is the most valuable commodity in the universe.” That blew me away. “Turn on the TV,” he’d say. “What are you seeing? People selling their products? No. People selling the fear of you having to live without their products.” Fuckin’ A, was he right. Fear of aging, fear of loneliness, fear of poverty, fear of failure. Fear is the most basic emotion we have. Fear is primal. Fear sells.” 

Kinda unsettling isn’t it?

Well time to top off my day with a little more tumblr, pizza, and some Game of Thrones. Considering my mom asked me today “No one warned me it would get this cold!” and I turned with the most serious look in my face “Ned Stark did, he warned all of us, he was the only one that knew to brace himself because …. WINTER IS COMING”