Anywho...I've been fairly busy with work, both in amount of shifts and stuff to do during shifts, so I haven't had as much on-the-job creativity time, so I haven't really been doodling or whatever. I have, however, started practicing video editing at home. Mostly from gameplay I've recorded, a lot of Diablo 3, and also talking over it testing to see a combination of things like how freaking loud my keyboard is (answer: Quite loud indeed) and what programs work better for the voice recording. It's neat, and entirely for fun at this point in time, and I've got some amusing ideas for videos to make, so I've got plans, which is nice.
Speaking of computery things, I've been requested to build a computer by my brother, and I've got a preliminary/potential setup laid out on virtual paper. There's a few things that I need to run by him still, mostly about peripherals, but it's a solid build that's both upgradable and cost effective. I'm also considering upgrading my video card, and replacing the stock fans that came with my case...and getting a monitor with a higher refresh rate...and potentially getting some liquid cooling and overclocking my CPU...apparently I wanna tune up my computer. Hold on, I've got a customer, gotta do a colour match.
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Okay, back. That was more of a hassle than anticipated, I lost the chip to match the colour to while they went out for coffee. Rather frustrating for both parties, if I do say so myself.
Anyway...what was I talking about? Oh, computer upgrades, right. Well my computer's a couple years old now and, while it handles most everything beautifully, there's a subtle lack of smoothness graphically in a lot of things I do, so I think a 144hz monitor (up from a 60hz one) should solve that problem, as long as my GPU can keep up. I might end up either getting a new one or an additional one of the same type, depending on cost and cooling required. Also my fans can occasionally be very noisy, so that needs to go, or they need to be lubricated, but case fans are cheap and pretty easy to replace, plus it gives me a chance to potentially rework my cable management, which is pretty bad in my current setup. That's something you want to take into consideration when picking out a case, cables everywhere disrupt air flow and look nasty, so managing them is fairly important.
Well, it's almost closing time, so I should probably get off my phone and actually do something. Short shift today, we're not usually open on Sunday, but just for the big sale they're having me work Sundays by myself for 6 hours. There were a few people but not anything t I busy. Ah well, I'm not complaining, it's more hours and therefore more funds, and it's not exactly hard work.
Alright, I'm out.
Cheers,
~Cam
