Whoops

Next time I try and help someone out with a broken PC, I'll try and avoiding salvaging some of their old bits, thinking they'll at least be working and an improvement to my PC. Bit more memory from Phil's PC now he's got a new motherboard and new memory? Bad move. My PC exploded as well.

Ok, it didn't actually explode, but something disastrous happened. So I've now got a new one. Which is an improvement, I guess. But a long and painful process to get it to the state I want it in. Not helped by having to cope with Vista being somewhat different to XP. Generally an improvement though, I think. But with many annoying things about it. Just different annoying things to XP.

Plus I got rid of a few of the bits from my old PC to a very grateful neighbour, who paid enough to order a MIDI interface. Which I kind of need, really. Now I just need to get a decent sound card in it as well. Then some way to get the guitar into the PC with decent quality. (Not really going to get much success out of plugging the guitar straight into a mic or line input, I suppose).

At least I've added another 16 quid to the total of freebies. Making £398.15, or something. Roughly. So that'll be the 400 quid target broken then. With potentially £100+ to come this year as well. Woo hoo, as they say.