It’s been a while
Posted by monogodo | Filed under Blogging, Life, Personal News, Pets, iPhone
I see that the last post I had was back in July, almost 3.5 months ago. It’s not that nothing’s been going on, or that I’ve been too busy to post, I just haven’t felt like it. Although, there were a couple times I tried to post from work and got an error, so I gave up. But I’m back now.
The MacBook is working well for me. I did drop it on the concrete floor one evening while it was running, but nothing was damaged. I’m more careful now.
We moved at the end of July to a new loft in a new(er) building. Our old loft was in a 100+ year old building. Our new loft is in a 50+ year old building. It’s a smaller space, but the layout is very efficient, and we like it.
Work is work. Nothing new there.
We’re now down to two cats. We had to have Lorenzo put down at the end of July. His ear cancer had come back, and his kidneys were failing. The best thing for him was to humanely have him euthanized. It was the most difficult thing I’ve ever had to do, but it was the right thing to do. Lance & Arianna have adapted to his loss fairly well, but I can tell they miss him.
I got an iPhone recently. It’s great, as I expected. I’ve downloaded lots of free apps for it. I’m afraid of downloading non-free apps because I don’t want to run up a huge iTunes bill.
We went to the NYC area for a week from the 18th through the 25th. I’ll go into detail in another post.
Tags: iPhone, miscellany, moving, Pets, shopping, WorkRelated posts
I’ve got a new computer
Posted by monogodo | Filed under Personal News
Yep, I picked up a MacBook tonight. Cynthia & I headed up McKinney Ave to the Apple Store on Knox. As we approached it, we saw a line of people down the block, waiting to get in. Yep, it was iPhone 2.0 release day. We figured that we might have better luck at the Apple Store in Northpark Mall, since parking would be easier and it was inside. We saw the line in the hall, and asked if we had to wait to be able to purchase something other than an iPhone. They asked what we wanted, and we told them a MacBook. They said we’d have to wait in line. So we left.
I called the Knox store to see if they’d make me wait, too. Yep, same deal. They said the line might be shorter the next day, but if there still was a line, we’d still have to wait. So I called Best Buy to make sure they had the computer I wanted. They said they had 16, so we headed over there. We stood around for about 15 minutes with no one even acknowledging our presence before we gave up and decided to go to MicroCenter instead.
We’d picked up an Eee PC for Cynthia there a couple weeks ago, and the Mac guy was really helpful, so we figured we could get a Mac from him. He got it for us, and helped us pick out some other items, and we went up to pay for it. Unfortunately, the purchase amount was over our daily limit for our debit cards. We ended up having to split the purchase between two cards, but we got it done. The cashier was very patient.
So I’ve spent the last hour or so getting it set up the way I like it. I’ve downloaded Firefox 3.0 and customized it a bit. Now I need to get a better background image for the wallpaper.
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I got a new wallet
Posted by monogodo | Filed under Life
At lunch today, my wallet fell out of my pants and into the toilet. I was able to rescue it and salvage the few items I had in it. I’d recently switched from a tri-fold wallet to a business card wallet, so there’s not much room in it for stuff. Since I was now without a wallet, I suggested to Cynthia that we go to dinner at NorthPark so I could get a new one.
After dinner, we went to the Fossil store and I purchased one. It has a magnetic money clip. I’ve never used a money clip before, so I’ll see how it works out. I don’t usually carry much cash, so I don’t think it’ll be that big of a deal. Now I just have to condense my discount cards down to one to save room.
Tags: shopping, wallet