New Toys {geekgasm}

Tonight will, in all probability, mostly be spent in working and playing on and with my computer. At this point, it could probably be considered my "new" computer, since I've replaced almost all of the primary components. I've got a new motherboard, a new CPU (Athlon 64 X2 3800), new video card (GeForce 6800 XT), and 2 GB RAM. I got to play with it a little bit last night at craft night (building a computer counts as being crafty! ^_^) and I am looking forward to having a more in-depth session with it tonight; yesterday was primarily focused on answering the question "can I get it up and running?" and today I will focus on more detailed things like "Can I get a 64-bit version of Linux running on it? Can I max out my resolutions on games now? Can I beat the next boss in Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow?" and other important questions ^_^

In other news (since I'm already on the subject) I've been learning a lot about Java the past few days, especially with its graphical user interface (Swing) aspects. It's very fun, and I am looking forward to honing my skills with it. In fact, I may post some sort of request for projects for ideas of simple programs that people would be interested in having for their computers in a few days, just to give me some things to practice on--but we'll see whether that happens or not.