So, I’ve caved in and ordered a new laptop! I figure I should get all of my big purchases out of the way before I move out.

That’s my excuse, and I’m sticking to it. 😛

I’m looking at moving out some time in the next few months. I’m trying to work out all the financial stuff, to find out what sort of price I can afford for rent (I really want to live by myself).

This is where you lot come in! After paying all the fixed monthly bills (rent, transport, mobile phone, internet, etc), how much left-over do you think would be a decent amount to live on? It’d pretty much be food and random shit that’d need to be purchased from that left-over amount. And I’m working this out on a monthly basis as that’s how often I get paid.

Hurrah for new CDs!

  • Agalloch — Pale Folklore
  • Agalloch — The Mantle
  • Agalloch — Ashes Against The Grain
  • Deathspell Omega — Kénôse
  • Deathspell Omega — Si Monumentum Requires, Circumspice
  • Dark Tranquility — Haven
  • Devin Townsend — Synchestra
  • Gehenna — Seen Through The Veils Of Darkness
  • Lamb Of God — Ashes Of The Wake
  • Lyzanxia — Unsu
  • Necromantia — IV: Malice
  • Old Man’s Child — Ill-natured Spiritual Invasion
  • Rotting Christ — Genesis
  • Strapping Young Lad — Alien
  • Strapping Young Lad — The New Black
  • Trail Of Tears — Existentia

Wow. I was looking through my iTunes library at the “Last Played” dates… there’s a few songs in there I haven’t listened to since the end of 2002! And a bunch more from 2003.

With ~7000 songs in my library I guess it’s hardly surprising that there’s songs I haven’t listened to for that long, but it still amazes me.