As I’m writing this, It is the day of NYE. I’ve been mixing up my days for the last few, but I think today is the last day of 2022? *Checks clock*. Yup. It’s December 31st, 2022. I have told both Kathleen and Ian that 2022 was a placeholder for better years. 2021 was a shithshow in so many ways. There was the backdrop of the pandemic plus my personal hell–my medical crisis. (Link to yesterday’s post.)
The beginning of 2022 was me getting back to normal and adjusting to still being alive. Every day, I woke up and marveled at the miracle. I truly looked out the window every morning and counted every blessing. It was astonishing to me that the world was so vibrant and I was around to appreciate it.
Then, it was Febriary. If you know me at all, you know that means Elden Ring. The specs for the PC version were dropped 10 days before the game was released, which meant I had to buy a PC that would run the game in less than two weeks. I wanted to play the game as soon as I could, so I got to work.
This was one way in which my thinking had been changed. Before, I got the cheapest machine possible. I skimped on everything to get something that served my basic needs. That’s not a bad thing, by the way. There is nothing wrong with being thrifty. But there is a point where it’s counter-productive. When I bought my last laptop (my current laptop that I am typing on right now), I got the bare minimum needed to run the machine.
I will say that I had the insight to an SSD, which has been a game-changer. I will never have a machine without it again because it makes everything so much faster. One of the reasons I stopped using my old desktop is because it took forever to start up without an SSD.
Then, I would add to the machine because it would chug along. I had to add memory and storage and more. When it was time to buy a machine to play Elden Ring (and, yes, I am extremely privileged that I was able to do this), I decided to splash out and get the best I could. First, I had to decide if i wanted a desktop or a laptop. I had been thinking about getting a desktop because I wanted a work station.