New computer to replace mouse

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Well, I was a nervous wreck today ( this morning up to now ....cause now its BEER THIRTY YIPEE ! TIME to relax )
Reason for nervous wrecklessness is I went to micro center in MN. area to pick out new computer components and see if they could build it for me, and be within my tight budget.
It took about 3 hours . But luckily the sales guy I met up with was fantastic and very cool.. and knew a LOT of stuff about high end machines and monitors etc.. through his own computer use ( serious gamer but aware of video editing and photoshop on pro level ). He did a lot to lessen my anxiety... and between us we think we got a good system for starting out. I can add stuff ( drives and better monitor(s) later as needed ).
This is what I got...and I will pick it up in 3-4 days from now...and it will weigh about 40 pounds !  Yikes !  It's HUGE !
After I pick it up and bring home I'm gonna install cs6 hard copy creative suite... update both windows and CS6 to newest versions and patches and fixes and whatever... and then unplug the ( disable ) new computer from internet.
We figured on 1 SSD for OS
1 SSD for scratch disk ( cs6 ) and probably those temp rendered files etc that PR likes...
2 Hard drives in raid 1 for source material
1 Hard drive for exports.
Then I can use my ext hd graid for backup of exports or for transit.
I'm probably gonna need help getting this set up right and adobe loaded properly.. and hope this thread can do that even though we are in lounge and typically dont deal with tech issues... I'll see how that goes down the road.
I really don't wanna spread myself all over the map and share posts with people who are frankly a bit less than interested in trying to eek out the best 'pro' system I can get going with this startup system...with an eye for adding to it later ( like when I get a client for example.. which would be nice at some point.. duh )
Anyway, regardless, it's BEER THIRTY ! YIPPEEE ! 
AND I GOT A NEW COMPUTER ( almost )

Answer 1

dont remember him on sopranos.. but i only worked 2nd half of first season.
That turned out pretty weird...
At first hbo was non union and in order to get hbo to go union and shoot in nyc a special 'contract' was drawn up. It gave away the farm more or less... lots of giving up stuff... which subsequently affected certain 'conditions'. For example, production could work the crew 18 hour days without really having any money reason NOT to do it... ( eg. overtime, meal penalties, a cap of 8 hours pension welfare paid per day, stuff like that ).
The first season of sopranos you COULDN'T GET CREW to work on it, even with lots of begging ....cause it was the WORST contract in NY then. The lowest scale rate, the worst conditions.
After about 1.5 seasons the crew finally said to production, " we will not work more than 16 hours per day in a general sense... if once in a while it has to be longer, okay, but we won't work 18 hour days anymore as a rule ".. that sorta thing.  So the hours got a bit better in terms of the length of day ( dont forget there is only a 10 turnaround between when wrap is called and the next call time ...and your travel to and from work is your own time ).  Working 18 hour days just kills people basically.. they end up falling asleep on the roads and get killed etc.  IMO it is not cool.
Meantime, hbo also got into sex and the city some more...and these 2 shows ( sex and sopranos ) basically showed hbo that they could get quality work in nyc and work union.
Then, as time went on and various 'raises' were applied to the hbo contract etc ( voted on every few years or whatever )... and other things in ny changed ( more pressure from majors to cut costs etc )... it eventually turned out that the hbo contract was actually one of the BEST contracts in NY !!!!!  Things got so messed up with give backs to the majors to accomodate rising healthcare costs etc .. that now HBO was not so bad to work on at all.....
To some extent that's where things stand now.. a sort of lowering to the lowest common denominator.. and the low came up a bit, and the high went down a bit...
One thing that changed for everybody is the call time determination. It used to be that scheduling ( due to $$ pretty much keeping production to a set schedule with tight shooting .. no shooting 10 masters of same scene from different angles ) was pre determined mostly. If you were keying and needed extra day players the next day ( for a crane or whatever ) you could call the guys and book them and give them location and call time at least a day ahead of time.
NOW productions shoot until they stop.. it's cheaper than before and can shoot over the schedule and it doesn't matter that much.. which means ( due to turnaround which is now 9 hours instead of 10 ... 10 gave the crew too much time ! )...
So NOW you could be getting done with shoot at say 2am and the production company tells you your call time...and you as key have to call your 'day players' at 2am to tell them what their call time is....
This tends to wake up the whole house of the dayplayer ( phone ringing at strange hours for last minute call time info ).
ITS UGLY... boy, I'm glad I don't do that anymore !!!!!