My new PC presents a whole new set of problems

Don't get me wrong...

The lappy I've been using the past year was a godsend and I'm so SO grateful to my pal Jenn for letting me have it on extended loan. It was more than adequate to do the things I needed to do, i.e. bitch about bloggy nonsense and look at porn. BUT. If I tried to do more than two things at once, say, listen to a streaming radio station while I tried to write or noodled around with a photo editor while I had an IM chat window open, then it would sometimes lock up and always pestered me with constant warnings about the virtual memory being too low.

Now that I have the new PC - my handsome Dino - I can do all of that and more and never get the first warning of any sort. Sometimes I wonder if I might have accidentally turned some safety function off and it's gonna melt down the next time I open a new tab. Until that happens I've been trying to catch up on listening to music I like. Sadly, WOXY.com (my favorite) isn't broadcasting right now 'cause they ran out of $$$ so I've been making due with SomaFM out of San Francisco.

The trouble I'm having now is that I don't want to turn Dino off and go to bed for fear of missing some awesome new song or artist. Plus, it's a connection to the larger world that I crave desperately to be a part of. Not the music industry mind you, but any larger, more diverse area that has music I like on the actual radio and not off the internet or beamed in by satellite to your car. The only place in WV that has that is Morgantown with the college radio stattion, WWVU. They're on the net now too, I believe. And no, even of Jesse didn't live there I have no desire to be there longer than a day or two to visit friends. Living there again would be a huge step back on par with moving back to Oak Hell.

Not that I've ever needed an excuse to stay up late but, for example, I decided to make this silly post so I could justify it and listen to the radio. The first step is admitting you have a problem, and I do that every time I mention this town or gripe about my sister so now you all have to give me money to move an intervention. I wonder if you can pick up any good stations at Passages Malibu?