I've had that song stuck in my head ever since yesterday. Wanna know why? I'm the luckiest SOB in the world right now. First, for those who aren't "in the know" (which probably isn't many since I talk WAY too much...), let's recap on the recent events...

About two months ago, I got broadband internet due to a move to upper Mississippi (Memphis metropolitan area), which was very nice to begin with. This allowed me to harness the amazing machine I had gotten from a friend with Linux (specifically, Fedora 7). After some initial troubles with the installation, I managed to get it running and connected to the internet. Then I started screwing it up, by my own accord (I'm not a very careful person when it comes to free, easily replaced things --such as brand new installations). Eventually, I got it working well, then it screwed itself up (true, I probably did it, but I'm not sure how... I was being more careful). I scrambled for a collection of new distros to practice with because I was not expecting to have internet at the new house (oh, yeah --we moved from the apartment to our own house) and I needed something that worked on the computer (I had installed Fedora 7 via LiveCD because every time I'd download the ISO for the DVD something would screw up, which is why I am currently downloading both the LiveCD and the DVD --just in case, although this particular computer doesn't have a DVD burner), so I got Ubuntu, Arch, and ...oh, and Fedora Core 6. So, I put Ubuntu on the computer just before moving and it worked okay for a few boots (installing new stuff and trying to get recognition of the two other HDDs in there took some time...) after the move, but it slowly fell apart. It started off not seeing the third drive at all, then wouldn't get passed the initial BIOS screen, and finally it stopped doing anything productive at all, including any display, even of the BIOS. So it's dead now.

Aside from this, I have had a secret computer I have not told anyone on here about (ah-ha!) at my mother's house which I could not get to work, for undiscovered reasons, though I theorize it had to do with relatively low memory although that never seemed to be mentioned during any installation process.....

The other problem isn't actually big at all, but it hurt my ego considering all the other problems --an ancient machine that I ran Win3.1 once upon a time that I was going to modify for an entertainment project (as mentioned elsewhere). I couldn't even get it to read the freakin' hard drive (it wouldn't accept the proper demensions for it).

SO, that's THREE computers that have self-destructed. That sucks.

Now, for the lucky part (sorry once again for talking so much --I can't help it; I'm an aspiring writer).
I went to a friends house in my old town for the first time in a long time, even before we moved from there, to spend the night. His mom had gotten back from "the farm" by about four in the morning (I don't sleep much... but doubly so when I'm not at home), and we talked for a while (we are both artistic philosophers...). Nearing the end of her three days of sleeplessness, she was not completely capable of talking at that point, but I had mentioned my obsurd position with technology, and she said that she had bought a computer earlier this year and wanted to get rid of it, for she never used it and now found no need to keep it. I agreed to discuss it in the morning when she was more capable of such negotiations, and it turned out that she was wanting a better-working piano --and it just so happens that my aunt was wanting to get rid of hers. In the end, My aunt got rid of her piano, my friend's mom got a new piano and got rid of her computer, and I got this (from the specs sticker):

*AMD LIVE! (tm) //whatever that is...
*AMD Athlon (tm) 64 X2 DUAL CORE 4200+ for "True Multitasking" //COOL!!!
*a gig of memory //I'll be upgrading that to 2 soon, hopefully; sadly, the memory from my _//old computer doesn't fit...
*320GB 7200 RPM SATA HDD //SWEET!! I CAN KEEP ALL MY MUSIC IN ONE _//PLACE NOW! Not to mention the two 40GB drives I'll have... which I'll get back to.
*NVidia GeForce 6150 LE graphics //I don't keep up with "new names" and all, but it _//sounds nice. Hopefully better than the Radeon 8500 I had.
* 9-in-1 memory card reader
*10/100 Base-T NIC //ah, I have a faster one I'll put in, but that's all I'll need for now
*and about a million /*not literally, of course*/ USB and FireWire /*which I've never had!*/ _ports
*Not to mention the 19" LCD display she had bought to go with it, and the wireless _keyboard and mouse, though I'm not sure whether I'm going to use it or my old one. We've never had a "flat" monitor, ever. It is SOO nice.

Now, there are some problems, such as the freakin' thing shipped with 32-bit Vista --oh, yeah... that bit of blasphimy. I am going to keep Vista on a 40GB hard drive to serve music to my 360, whenever it gets back from repairs (stupid Microsoft...), but I will primarilly use Linux, probably fedora 7, on the primary IDE and use the SATA drive to store... everything. Heh... that's a lot of room....

Oh, Fat32 is both Windows and Linux friendly, right? I don't want the shared drive formatted in NTFS, but Windows doesn't like most other formats... stupid Microsoft.

And the other problem : my dad's going to more or less force me into keeping it in the living room. "It just clutters your room up more" blah blah blah... not to mention there's no internet connection in my room, and he's not going to "allow" me to run the line I got just for that purpose. (bad word). No worries, though --I've already said I'm going to start paying for the internet, and I'll have it put directly in my room if I have to.

Well, I'm going to go and hassle HP (oh, it's an "HP Pavilion a1710n") for the CORRECT version of Vista (stupid Microsoft...) and probably mess up my brand new toy in other ways, including finding a way into the living room with it and putting the hard drives in there in a more secure fashion than them setting on the bottom of the case (I'm sure that's not good for them).

EDIT: Seesh! I talk a LOT!!!