Despite BeerChief going way over budget, (triple what i’d budgeted for infact) I’m still going to go ahead and buy myself a new office.

For my 21st birthday (3 weeks to the day), my girlfriend is buying me a desk and a chair, so that’s one less expense i have to worry about (totals over €300). I have my eyes on two of these samsung 20″ LCD’s

For the tech heads amongst us;

1680 x 1050 resolution
2ms response time
3000:1 contrast ratio

So that would give me 40 inches of space to play with – almost triple the space i’m working with at the minute Plus the look cool too – they have a retro 70’s thing goin on and how can you resist that glossy black finish? Lets face it, i’ll be looking at these screens for the next 3 or 4 years minimum on a daily basis. They gotta look good

They’ll set me back the guts of €500 and a top of the range PC will set me back another €900 or so (Dell XPS with quad core, decent graphics card & 4 gigs of ram). So i’ll need about €1400 if i’m to complete my new office. Hopefully i’ll get a bit of cash for my birthday and put a dent in that figure, and if i keep nailing $1k+ per month online, i won’t be long paying it off..

It is of course a long term investment… it WILL increase my productivity, give me cutting edge tools to work with and surely, SURELY, i can increase my earnings as a result also