My computer has been acting up lately. It’s been doing funny things like crashing games at random (even games that don’t tax my system by any stretch of the imagination). And when it starts crashing games at random, I know that it’s time for a wipe. Of course, Calvin tells me that if I were running Linux, I wouldn’t have this problem. But alas, if I want to play the billions of games I have, I am chained to Windows.

I haven’t wiped this computer since we put it together back in 2005, so I’ve spent hours backing up all my files today. I’m very excited, as we bought 2GB of RAM as an upgrade for me. I have 1 GB right now (two 512 sticks), and three slots, so when all is said and done I’ll have 2.5GB. I’m hoping that this will give me a performance boost with some higher end games, like Oblivion (and solve the above average crashing with this game in particular; I’m thinking my computer may be having traffic jams when I play it…)

Anyways, really this is something to do while I wait for yet another backup to finish writing. Alas, it would be nice if I had an external USB hard drive to backup to, but we don’t…so it’s CD’s for now.