Back in Business -- Literally!

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I have a desktop again! And a job! And the two are related!

Okay, so as I've shared here before I've been trying to make something akin to a work from home situation work for me for a while. I've been trying to find indie devs interested in some of my music work, and I've had a couple of jobs lined up, but the death of my computer a couple of months ago almost killed that opportunity for me.

Until I re-negotiated one of my contracts.

That re-negotiation netted me not only enough to pay my bills for the next 3 months, but ALSO enough to build myself a new rig, one better suited to the production of music art than my older rig ever dreamt of being.

To say I'm happy with the situation is an understatement.

On the one hand, I REALLY don't like taking payment for something before I deliver the goods. On the OTHER, I've already been working with this dev for a while, and the terms of our old contract would have meant me not seeing any income from the work I'm doing for them for potentially years. Part of this re-negotiation ALSO includes the possibility of me acquiring a more full-time position on the game dev team, which would be even better, and all of that without any binding exclusivity contract either.

It's a gift horse, to be sure, and one I'm going to happily ride into the sunset no matter its dental history.

For anyone interested, the new rig is as follows:

Gigabyte B450 Aorus Pro WiFi motherboard
Gigabyte GTX 1660 OC (and I'll be OCing it EVEN MORE)
AMD RyZen 5 2600x (3.6 GHz, 6 cores/12 threads)
256 GB PCi-E M.2 SSD
4 TB Western Digital Caviar Blue
16 GB G. Skill FlareX DDR4 (3200)

I think I should be set for the next 3-5 years.

Here's hoping I start spending a bit more time on here soon, too. :)

Melanie E.

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