{"id":4046,"date":"2007-03-19T23:53:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-20T03:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=4046"},"modified":"2021-03-05T13:18:26","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T18:18:26","slug":"obsessed-with-the-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=4046","title":{"rendered":"Obsessed with the tech."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I finally have a reason, a desire, to acquire newer technology than that which I can easily find used.  It needs to be a wee bit better than the super-cheap, eco- and conscience-friendly methods that I have employed in the past.  It doesn&#8217;t need to be new, but that wouldn&#8217;t hurt.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gametap.com\/\">GameTap<\/a> does not work with a VIA UniChrome video card, even when it&#8217;s cranked up to its max shared memory.<\/p>\n<p>So, I must move on to Plan B.  Never fear, dear readers, Plan B is also of the nifty.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I have begun to write down my daily accomplishments, however small, in order to acknowledge them as such.  Like many who commented in my last post, I do thrive on a sense of accomplishment.  I have worked around using lists, checking them off early, questioning the value of each check, etc.  So, instead, I&#8217;m making the reverse list.  Not what needs to get done, but what has gotten done.  I need to recognize that I AM doing things, even if they&#8217;re small, to have the confidence to accomplish greater things.  Another thing that my father (and mother) used to tell me was that I could do anything.  Damn right.  I can.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>My wife loves me very much.  And though some of you don&#8217;t see it in ways that you might expect to, I have proof.  I got a can of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pocari_Sweat\">this<\/a> today, and it was DELICIOUS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finally have a reason, a desire, to acquire newer technology than that which I can easily find used. It needs to be a wee bit better than the super-cheap, eco- and conscience-friendly methods that I have employed in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=4046\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[32,34],"class_list":["post-4046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-gadgets-and-nerdery","tag-livejournal"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paQnES-13g","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4046"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7193,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4046\/revisions\/7193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}