Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Busy little bee
House renovations are almost complete! Well, let me rephrase...house redecorating is almost complete! I didn't move any walls or tear out any floors, but I did do a whole lot of painting, building furniture, making artwork, and soon to be refinishing furniture! What lit this fire under my ass? I scheduled a party. Apparently, it works to get your butt in gear to get the house set up properly. I still have an office in my dining room, and that won't change for a few more weeks, but then end of my term as landlord is quickly approaching!! A week after my sister moves out I anticipate the home transformation to be compete. That is, I'm giving myself a week after she moves out to repaint her room, move my office in there from it's current home in the dining room, and reset my dining room for it's proper function. I CAN'T WAIT!! Photos soon.
Friday, March 6, 2009
Grande Skinny Caramel Mo..er, Latte, No Whip
Or...Grande Guilt-Free Caramel Swirl Mocha, No Whip.
It seems that the more words that can be used to describe your preferred Starbucks or CCs beverage equates to some sort of ranking on the totem pole of recreational coffee drinking. The more you say, the more important you must be. Or, the more addicted.
Let's translate that into computer-ese and see how overwhelming it becomes: HP, Asus, NVidea Graphics ???, Integrated Graphics, 64-bit, all of these words fly so far over my head that shorty here can't even jump high enough to catch. Nor do I want to, really. Bring a trusted computer-ese-literate friend and budget and please, just tell me what to buy.
My beloved HP Pavilion (that was almost 2.5 years old) suddenly stopped working last Friday afternoon. Small things had started acting up over the course of the last couple of weeks, but I just overlooked it as normal computer glitches, since they corrected itself by a simple reset of the internet, or restart of the computer. No so much the case on Friday. Rather than spend $85 to have the computer shipped off to tell me what I already knew, we spent nearly 2 hours at Best Buy, hemming and hawing over all the possibilities of a new computer.
Fast forward four days. I've got a new computer, albeit the second new computer in five days, yet I still have no access to all my old files, nor have any programs that I require successfully installed on this new computer with Vista 64. Yes, all of the programs are 64-bit compatible. But error messages abound. The first computer was returned two days after purchasing because of the errors. Five days later, with a different brand computer, the same problems. Thank goodness the weekend is coming soon. Maybe third time's the charm?
It seems that the more words that can be used to describe your preferred Starbucks or CCs beverage equates to some sort of ranking on the totem pole of recreational coffee drinking. The more you say, the more important you must be. Or, the more addicted.
Let's translate that into computer-ese and see how overwhelming it becomes: HP, Asus, NVidea Graphics ???, Integrated Graphics, 64-bit, all of these words fly so far over my head that shorty here can't even jump high enough to catch. Nor do I want to, really. Bring a trusted computer-ese-literate friend and budget and please, just tell me what to buy.
My beloved HP Pavilion (that was almost 2.5 years old) suddenly stopped working last Friday afternoon. Small things had started acting up over the course of the last couple of weeks, but I just overlooked it as normal computer glitches, since they corrected itself by a simple reset of the internet, or restart of the computer. No so much the case on Friday. Rather than spend $85 to have the computer shipped off to tell me what I already knew, we spent nearly 2 hours at Best Buy, hemming and hawing over all the possibilities of a new computer.
Fast forward four days. I've got a new computer, albeit the second new computer in five days, yet I still have no access to all my old files, nor have any programs that I require successfully installed on this new computer with Vista 64. Yes, all of the programs are 64-bit compatible. But error messages abound. The first computer was returned two days after purchasing because of the errors. Five days later, with a different brand computer, the same problems. Thank goodness the weekend is coming soon. Maybe third time's the charm?
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