Where's that damn pointer

Did you know laser mice existed? I didn't either...
An evolution from the great optical mouse, a laser mouse uses a class 1 eye-safe laser to detect motion. What does that mean? well it's VERY sensitive and VERY accurate.
In a fit of shopping madness (like I always have, if you read good-delicious regularly you'd know!), I bought alot of unecessary things:

1\ xfx geforce 7800gtx: I hate SLi (henceforth known as SL-lie). It's a great idea that just doesn't work! If you remember my last big upgrade had two very big and expensive geforce 6800 ultras in SL-lie. The system is hot, way too noisy (you have to disable all eq options and leave all fans running max in SL-lie), vsync can't be turned on (leading to tons of teared images on my flat panel), and ofcourse it crashes. Check the nvidia forums for all the moaning. The only use of SL-lie is to give you a bigger virtual dick, and give you 10,800 points in 3dmark05. But in real life game playing it's shit, including the fact that the 7800gtx outdoes it in nearly every game at 1600x1200 res (my monitor's native res).
Anyway, it's installed now and even though my 3dmark score is just 8000, all my fps games are faster, cleaner, smoother, and quieter. Ebay, here I come!

2\ Razer Copperhead Lasermouse: at 2000dpi and 1000hz frequncy, this is a bad mofo! Ambidextrous design and cool glowing blue leds make this a beauty, and with 7 buttons there's no shortage. Problem is, it's too accurate and sensitive for me. My last mouse was a humble microsoft optical, and using the copperhead for a few hours today (in Guild Wars, CoD2 demo and others) I realised juts what I've been missing. The mouse functions PERFECTLY in all games, and really does improve your responsiveness (and scores!). It even has on-the-fly sensitvity changing so if it's going to fast just change it. And finally, it has 32k of ram to store upto 5 profiles. So if you use it on some other PC, it's all ready as you last left it :)
Also, the one I got happens to be one of 10,000 "first edition"s, it even comes with a certificate to prove so. I didn't know that when I ordered it, but is it a good thing? first edition things tend to be buggy... at least the firmware is upgradeable (no joke! mice with firmware, what next? consoles with magic wands..... wait a minute.....)

3\ Soundblaster Fatal1ty X-Fi FPS: still haven't got that.
4\ Saitek Eclipse Keyboard: still haven't got it either

5\ Speedlink Medusa 5.1 surround headphones: I have read so many good reviews and praise for these babies that I ordered them. I still haven't received them but they are apparantly very good, with 5.1 surround in games/dvd and music. I sorely need something like this since I'm sharing a house I can't play on 7.1 speakers all the time, so these headphones will come in handy for late-night Quake3/quake4/cod2/fear/ss2/hl2/cs:source (delete as appropriate)

6\ Konica-Minolta Dimage A200 camera: 8mpixel, 7xoptical zoom, Antishake (rocks! makes nearly all pictures clear and in-focus), and a ton of other options make this camera a great buy. It looks semi-pro too, so it's time to get rid of that stylish sony dsc-t1 (looks good, works ok)

I spend too much money, I hate it. I've decided not to impulse buy any more, and not to buy cutting-edge shit that costs too much. I decided this 5 years ago........

PS: and i know this has nothing to do with spending too much, but Golden Sun Team have finally released a universal NintendoDS rom patcher that makes all releases run on the neoflash backup system (which I have). I've been nuturing my labrador on the excellent Nintendogs recently. If you haven't got a clue what I'm talking about, google's your friend!