omgwtf!

Our local geek shop is Fry’s Electronics. They’re a bigass warehouse place, and quite, quite evil, but they have delicious computery bits and games and all kinds of things no dyed in the wool nerd can live without. They even sell some Mac stuff. Their prices could be better sometimes, but twice a week they put stuff on crazy sale and then it’s all you can do to sit still and not blow your whole paycheck.

I’ve been wanting a new hard drive for some time now. Not because my current hard drives are broken; it’s simply that I need more space. I work with multimedia files all day long, and I need more elbow room. I’m using a shoehorn to fit all the stuff I’ve got on my drives now. I have one 60 gig drive and one tiny little 28 gig drive and that 28 gig drive has four gigs left and it’s falling fast. My 60 gig has more, but that’s my OS drive and I use it strictly for software, no storage. I dont want that drive going away and putting me out of work for a few days until I get it sorted out again. I treat that drive very gently and I keep it very clean.

Well, I’ve been keeping an eye on the Fry’s sales and nothing really fantastic has hit me at the same time that I can actually afford to buy anything…until this morning. I almost bought a hard drive yesterday, but Mu convinced me to wait for the Friday sale flyer and I thought this made sense, since I wasn’t going to install a new drive before this afternoon anyway. Sure enough, when she got the flyer, it turns out that theyre having a grand opening sale in a bunch of their stores for the new store theyre opening in Oxnard.

As a result, I got me a 300 gig hard Seagate hard drive for $129, which is crazy enough to be getting on with. It gets better, though, because right next to this keyboard I’m typing on is two rebate forms that will give me $60 back on this drive, making it a grand total of $70 after rebate. For 300 gigs of storagey goodness. I am dizzy with heady delight. I hope I have enough cable connections in there to daisy chain this sucker to the other two drives, or things will get ugly fast. I’m not really in the mood to do a full backup, although I’m sure it wouldnt hurt. Regardless, this drive is going in today.

My evil plot for world domination is proceeding according to plan…

Edit: It’s important to note that this drive comes in a very sexy black box under the sleeve. It says “expand” on it in white letters.

My nipples explode with delight!