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Ah yes, the time of year to be cheery and all that jazz.  I haven’t been having a good month thus far with some real life crap happening that has created a sort of depression for me.  I’m hoping things improve so my holiday could be a bit brighter than what it looks like right now.  To those that I might not catch up with as the holiday gets close, try and have a Merry Christmas! 

I’ll try to strive for one myself but times have been kind of crappy…

After a recent visit to the dentist, it has come to my attention I need to have my wisdom’s pulled.  I did a little talking to my best friend since he had his done and it shouldn’t be that big of a deal to have done.  Everyone else I spoke to just simply scared the be-jesus out of me about it.  My teeth aren’t crooked or rotten so it shouldn’t be that bad of a procedure.  It’s the amount of time for healing that kind of sucks but better that than a future problem that would suck at an older age.

Last night I installed the Windows 7 RC.  Not exactly what I meant to do since I was trying to get my XP machine formated and reinstalled.  During the install process it asked for me to do the usual verification over the internet to Microsoft so I could activate my windows software since I just reinstalled it.  I went ahead and did that and it was hunky dorey with that.  I finished installing my hardware drivers for my motherboard and video card and proceeded to restart my computer.  Once restarted, it asked to reverify my XP install as if I just changed my hardware again!?  So out of my own curiosity I went ahead and let it reverify and it gave me a red flag.  Gave me some rubish indicating that I should call their customer service or get another windows key.  Way to think I’m trying to pirate your software, Microsoft…

Zancarius put it best.  They assume you’re a software pirate before you’ve even installed the software!  So instead of screwing around with their silly time consuming customer service, I decided to check out Windows 7.  I got it installed last night but haven’t had much time to screw around with it.  I didn’t like Vista so we will see what Windows 7 has to offer.  In any case, I may have to get it when it comes out.  I view Vista as another Windows ME.  POS software that should’ve never been made.  It was a funky hybrid of Windows 98 and 2000 it seemed.  Not fully one or the other.