The 1030 is available on newegg. About 80 dollars... is that too much?
Pretty sure everything is too much right now. I got lectured yesterday because I "keep buying things on Amazon!" and was instructed to not spend any monies on anything without permissions.
I checked my amazon history and she is correct, I HAVE been buying a lot of things on it lately. I started my "spending spree" on June 10th when I ordered the new filter baskets and bits for the pool filter that I had her approval for. Then on the 11th I went all nuts and ordered a new telescopic pole for our pool since ours broke along with a vacuum head and skimmer head since neither of those had survived either. She knew and approved of these things, she wants her pool open!
Then on June 15th I went and bought a new pump for the hot tub after too much searching to find one to replace ours at half the price, again approved.
Now I also did order a set of lug nut locks for her jeep ($20) and bits to make a secure hood lock for it ($8) along with an indulgence of $29 for some professional grade pesticide that is pet and plant friendly but still illegal in New York because it is effective more than 3 weeks. (I hate ants, the kids/wife hate spiders, and this shit is even supposed to kill mosquitoes!) It's an 8oz bottle, but you mix a 1/2oz with a gallon of water so it's 16 gallons of great pesticide that I'm going to use to try and keep the bugs around the pool/house under control.
So no upgrade for me for a while, I've resigned myself to that fate. I've spent the better part of too many days stressing on how to wire the new different pump to the old existing system, and I ended up today making a home made continuity tester just to figure all the wiring out and then said "FUCK IT!" and wired it my own way and fixed it. Finally got to pump out the hot tub, power wash it, hand scrub it down with CLR, rinse it out, and finally tie it all back in with the pool. It's been all I've been focusing on besides gardening/yard work/house work for weeks now, and while I should feel a great sense of satisfaction I also have a bit of resentment at not only having to do all the work on the pool but also getting blamed for spending too much money on it. (I saved us $600 by finding and installing that pump myself, and it's something I've never done and was happy I could pull off)
Here, enjoy what I've achieved the whole time thinking "And this is why I don't get a computer upgrade" whenever I was working on it.