So here I sit at the Saturn dealer with the huginormous laptop on my lap. Fortunately
Saturn now has wifi. Unfortunately, my mac's battery died last night. Or at least
I discovered it last night. I noticed that it was unplugged on Sunday when it
went black screen on me. I'm not sure who twiddled the power cable. Since then,
the battery holds only 3%. It shutsdown and loses all sense within 5 minutes
of having been turned on. I'm less than pleased, but it is a very old laptop.
I think that I've had it for 5 or 6 years, well beyond the usable life of the
thing. I guess I really am going to have to find teh money to buy a new mac now.
While I'm sitting here, my car is receiving updates so that I can drive to Chicago
in a bit for CCCC. It needs an oil change, traansmission service, and brake fluid
flush (and presumably replace). $221. After this, I'm going to Target to see
if I can find a more usable bag. I can never manage to pack properly. I'm going
to have to rethink everything again : ( But regardless, since it would make no
sense to bring the mac, I have to take a rolling bag for this win machine. That
puts my stuff in really inconvenient places, so I need to find a purse or tote
or something so that I don't have to get down on the floor every time I want
a pen.
After that little trip, it's home to finish packing and off to Chicago. We have
a snow day today, so I don't have to go to the office (woohoo!). According to
my NPR meteorologist, the weather north of here is fine, just blowing a bit;
so the drive should be okay. Possibly a little slow. Regardless I"m bound to
get out of here sooner than I originally thought since I don't have to go in
to the office at all. I thought I'd have to work today and then leave after work.
It will be nice to get a head start on the trip during the daylight hours.
I must have a million partially done entries for this blog. Maybe I'll have some time this evening to catch up once I'm in Chicago.
Posted Friday, 24-Aug-2007 17:09:24 PDT
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