Video card overheating, waiting for contracting sucks, not going to be in SL for a while

That about sums it up.  I know this post is odd, considering I’m planning a trip to Europe in just 3 months, but I’ll explain.  I’m not that tech savvy and, right before SLCC, my monitor started having this poltergeist thingie happening to it.  It would randomly blink on and off and I’d have no way to predict when it would or wouldn’t.  I refused to believe it was anything with my system, since it’s less than a year old.

Well, it looks like it’s my video card.  I’ve been bluescreening if I do anything intensive, and sometimes nothing intensive. I’ve logged in every now and then to record machinima, but even that is risky for now.  I’ve had a large number of people get angry with me for not being around and I’m actually getting kind of tired of it. Real life happens. I’ve been around for the last 18 months almost night and day.

Why can’t I just go out and buy a new video card? See, that’s the funny part about contracting. You agree to do some work for someone and then suddenly it takes over *4* months to even prepare the contract to start work. I thought it would be done in the beginning of November because it was prepared for final signature. I see no end in sight, but there’s still a tidy January 1st deadline on the project. Since it’s a time-intensive project, I didn’t want to take on a complicated assignment and be pressed for time.

While I have a boatload of money on the way in 20-30 days, I don’t have the advance I’ve been waiting on. Sure, I could RMA the video card, but then I’d be without an entire COMPUTER while I waited for 3-4 weeks. So I’m sure that you can see my dilemma here. I want to be there for people, but I can’t while my computer is flipping out.

I miss socializing with all of you, but I hope you’ll understand why I’m not there.  I don’t normally like to discuss this stuff in public, but I also don’t like the hatemail. If you want to contact me out of SL, I’d be happy to chat with you, but not if it’s something that requires me to log into SL.

See you sometime soon!

My methods of contact are as follows:

AIM: moomoneySL/YIM: sasharudie/MSN: mooofnapa@hotmail.com/Skype: moomoney

~moo Money