Tuba Dude Update

Ok, been a really long time I know so here's the news.

After one semester at SIUC I increased my GPA by 1 point compared to MSOE. I'm now on some honors list for a 3.2/4.0 What sucks is that I didn't even try. I got my new FF character to levels (gil levels not included) higher than my old one. What took me 1 year of playing took me 3 months. This probably due to an amazing level of help and donations by Tsuki. (I owe you one million or so hehe.)

My parents are moving to Oklahoma City. They have already bought a house in the area and we're looking to sell our current house. I will continue to attend at SIUC and somehow trick the government into thinking I'm a IL res.

A good friend of mine is going to tie the knot with his girl in September. Barring a catatrophic mass transit failure I will be attending.

I'm currently employed at McD's and it sucks. They pay me min. wage despite being an excellent no training needed employee.

With my money I'm saving from the job I'll be saving for a car (to buy next summer probably) and for a new computer. I will hopefully be able to take advantage of Intel's release of the Conroe core that will force price drops on Intel and AMD proc. Here are the current specs I want to build:

CPU, AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Orleans 2000MHz HT Socket AM2:
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16819103639
Motherboard, ASUS M2N-SLI Deluxe Socket AM2 NVIDIA nForce 570 SLI: http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16813131013
Video Card, eVGA 256-P2-N564 Geforce 7900GT KO 256MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16:
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16814130015
RAM, OCZ Gold 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400): http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16820227030
Case, RAIDMAX Astro ATX-268WB Black 0.7mm Japanese SECC:
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16822135106
Hard Drive, Western Digital Caviar SE WD800JD 80GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s : http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16822135106

Other Extras:
Replacement/Add-on Fans: http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16835150037
Power Supply:
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16817374001
Cooling Fan, CPU Cooler, ZALMAN CNPS7000B-Cu LED 2 Ball Blue LED:
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16835118119

For helping around the house my Mom is buying the case fans for me ^_^

I will probably change what I want several times over the next month or so and will try to keep the links up to date.

My life in the past few months in a nutshell.