Email Hatred & New Computer

It's really early, 4:30 AM and I couldn't sleep with my cold. I checked my email and found 14 junk mails waiting for me, the usual garbage of get a bigger *, by using our new meds, probably make it fall off instead of get bigger. Or the mortage ones that are just trying to get your info.
I just hate junk email with a passion. I get all kinds of junk, but it does go into my junk email folder. I wish the rules for Outlook would work better. Most of the time I set a rule and it doesn't work until I run it. No automatic running and the stuff I really want gone doesn't permanently delete. But you have to live with the good and the bad I guess.

I'm looking into getting a new computer, a really good one. I have an AMD Athlon 2600+ with a Nvidia 6600 video card. With my writing reviews and such I need to get something better and was thinking of a Maingear Prelude, AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+, 2 Gig memory and a Nvidia 7950 video card. I won't be getting anything else in the way of audio cards or anything because I'll get to review better stuff than I can afford. All I need to do is wait for taxes and hope my kid's college doesn't lower our tax return. He started college this past year and with the deductions for all that I'm not sure what that will do to my tax status.

Christmas is coming and I am looking forward to a nice dinner. My relatives on my wife's side will all be together for a day and we will all exchange gifts and have a nice dinner. We all get to pick names and each adult gives one gift to another. Keeps the cost down for everyone. My son, the one in college is starting this fun tradition and doesn't really like it. Before he got to get gifts from everyone and all of a sudden he has to throw his name in the hat and pay for a gift for one of us. No one said growing up was fair. He's learning things he never thought he would as an adult, stuff not taught in college as classes.

My family has two dogs, peacefully snoozing on the couch at the moment. Some nights the springer spaniel border collie mix that is my older sons will sleep with him but sometimes she will stay on the couch. The little cairn terrier usually sleeps on the couch or on our bed. She will sneak up to our room about ten minutes after we go to bed and nose her way into our room. She is so cute. When I eat carrots or sesame sticks she goes nuts, begs and whines with this sick sounding bark that is more of a huff than a real bark. Her breed isn't supposed to bark when they hunt so they have an inbred thing with not barking for things they want. And she really wants sesame sticks and carrots. The other one could care less about the sesame sticks but they both love carrots, go figure.