Spent money and now will spend more time.

If you are a regular reader of my blog, you must have noticed that I have not been blogging as much as before.

If you regularly send me emails, you must have noticed that I do not reply to emails as promptly as before.

This has been going on for many months.








What have I been doing?

I have been spending more time on my other hobbies and the one that is taking the lion's share of my time is online gaming.

Specifically, MMORPG.

I have blogged about this before but things are about to get more intense.








After almost a year of online gaming, I decided to get a dedicated gaming laptop.

A beauty, it is.

Serious gamers would probably scoff at this entry level machine but it is a big deal for me at $1,348.

The keys glow red.

So cool, right?

I won't be pressing the wrong keys anymore when I play at night with the lights off.








The fact that I only went ahead with the purchase after so many months of online gaming means that I enjoy online gaming enough to part with some real money to get the hardware to at least satisfy the recommended requirements of the game.

The PC I was gaming on didn't even meet the minimum requirements and labored excessively under an IT challenged task master.

Who?

Who IT challenged?

I blur.










Logically, this new purchase also means that I want to spend more time gaming.

When a friend found out that I read only the Money section of the newspapers many years ago, he joked that I had no life because I didn't read the Life section.

When he found out about my latest purchase, he gave me the thumbs up.









No more choppy movement and low resolution images for me. 

Example of a low resolution image,

Not very nice, it was.

Yes, for the last 10 months, in game, I was like a character exploring a new world while suffering from cataracts and palsy.









My Celeron processor driven PC has huffed and puffed enough.

No more demanding online gaming for it.

I think I hear it sighing in relief.

I could be spending a lot more time gaming than before as I revisit many places in the game world now that I can move and see a lot better.









You could say that I am going to be spending more time travelling.

Well, at least I won't be spending money travelling.

OK, I know.

Bad AK! Bad AK!

I got an atas mouse too.

A fellow blogger suggested that I blog about this purchase and what it means so that readers could manage their expectations.

Mission accomplished, I hope.





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