I'm going to Europe for a month.
 

3 of my best friends and I are traveling all over Europe for a month. It's gonna be a blast.

Our itenerary at the moment is as follows:
MAY Tues 20 LONDON: ARRIVE
Wed 21 LONDON => AMSTERDAM
Thu 22 AMSTERDAM
Fri 23 AMSTERDAM => BRUSSELS
Sat 24 BRUSSELS
Sun 25 BRUSSELS => PARIS
Mon 26 PARIS => ZURICH
Tues 27 ZURICH
Wed 28 ZURICH => ROME
Thu 29 ROME
Fri 30 ROME
Sat 31 ROME => VENICE
JUNE Sun 1 VENICE => MUNICH
Mon 2 MUNICH
Tues 3 MUNICH
Wed 4 MUNICH => PRAGUE
Thu 5 PRAGUE
Fri 6 PRAGUE
Sat 7 PRAGUE => BERLIN
Sun 8 BERLIN
Mon 9 BERLIN
Tues 10 BERLIN => HAMBURG
Wed 11 HAMBURG
hu 12 HAMBURG => AMSTERDAM
Fri 13 AMSTERDAM => LONDON
Sat 14 LONDON => DUBLIN
Sun 15 DUBLIN
Mon 16 DUBLIN
Tues 17 DUBLIN
Wed 18 DUBLIN => LONDON
Thu 19 LONDON
Fri 20 LONDON: DEPART

Also, if you have any suggestions for places we should visit, let me know.

Just that you might find it a little rushed moving from place to place. Looks like a lot of fun though? How are you travelling, Eurorail?

your schedule seems a bit hurried! there's almost as much time on trains as there is out having a good time.

one suggestion i'd make is to spend a bit more time in london before shipping out all over the continent -- it can take a day or two before your jetlag really catches up with you, so you might like to have a few days to do some light sight-seeing, drink some beers, and sleep. being in transit can be tiring enough under certain circumstances; add on the physical exhaustion of jetlag and it could be rough.

also: it's a shame you're missing the scandinavian/arctic countries (aside from the stops in amsterdam).

Have fun.

I can show you Cornwall and the South Hams, ya dig.

my grandfather's family came from cornwall. cornish pasties, mmmmm :)

im jealous. love to go sometime. i get tired of being so local all the time.

So how was the trip?

Heh, actually, I ended up not going. I kind of opted out at the last minute, because...

A) Some stuff came up before I left that needed to be tended to.
B) I didn't have a job lined up for when I got back.
C) I wouldn't have barely had any money at all while I was there, so I stayed home.

My friends had a good time though. They were all quite anxious to come home by the end of the trip.

Oh damn well that sucks. So what have you been up to the past couple of months. Find yourself work and get the monies straightened out at least?

Yeah, I've been working at Sam's Club for the summer, doing overnight floor stocking. It's...alright. $9.50 an hour, and I just listen to my iPod all night. Time goes by quick.

Gonna try to upgrade my computer this summer, to something with a little more horsepower. Thinking of going with a quad core Q6600 OC'd to about 3.4ghz. 4gb RAM, and an ATI 4850. I'm getting pretty serious about the 3d stuff, so, I see this as more of an investment, rather than just wasting monies.

Close to 10 an hour at sam's ain't bad..

Definitely go with the hardware you just mentioned, or something similar. I just replaced my evga mobo/opteron 165/3gb pc3200/8800gts 320mb last night.

With:
BioStar TP 45 HP
Intel Q9300 Quad 2.5GHz
4GB DDR2 1066
Radeon 4870 512MB GDDR5

Besides the graphics card not having proper drivers out yet, I was able to get 8.6 catalysts installed no problem like many others. I just ran UT3 with high settings at my max resolution of 1680*1050 and it ran silky smooth, was a very nice upgrade for me.

my home computer is soon hitting the 6 year mark. pretty much everything has been upgraded at some point except the processor, which is a dinosaur. it's held up insanely well though considering its just a standard dell from '02.

but yeah...soon time to budget in a new one.

You can probably get away with a good build for.. easily under $800 full package, even lower depending on what you decide you can live without, I don't know what you're budget is like so I'm just throwing out average numbers. Those 4 components ran me around $850.. sure the card would go down sometime in the near future since it just released, but, I was ready for a build NOW lol. Plus we may be buying our first house within the next several months.. hopefully by the end of the year, so I kinda wanted to future proof my system for another good 2-3 years (capable of playing new games with high graphic settings).

yeah, when i finally go for a new system, i'll probably be looking to spend $800 max...maybe closer to $600, but somewhere in between is fine.