Day: January 31, 2009

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Introducing Cracktop!

Shelly

Sorry for the dearth of posts, but I have spent the last few days setting up the new laptop. I still am not finished migrating my music (that might take until approximately Labor Day, at the rate I’m going). But, I’ve finally got all the Adobe stuff loaded, as well as WordPerfect Office X4 (yay, no more MS Office!). I’m a die-hard WP person, so this is a Very Good Thing, because using Word makes the Baby Shelly cry.

Anyway, Cracktop is a thing of beauty. Alas, he is not bright red, like I’d wanted, but a shimmery, metallic bronze color. I am not complaining! He has a super springy keyboard, complete with keypad. I sacrificed some portability for larger screen size, since I won’t be carrying him around with me every day. He’s going to be my only computer, so I wanted a nice, big screen. I also sacrificed a better wireless card for more RAM. The wireless card he came with is only B/G, which is kind of worthless. Since I don’t have a wireless router (yet), and since USB N cards are super cheap, I thought it was a decent trade-off.

All this, I was able to figure out for myself, by shopping around online and reading user reviews. I ended up going to Best Buy, because they actually had the best prices I found. I figured, no shipping fees, plus instant gratification, would be a good thing, right? I did not, alas, factor in the annoyance factor of having a salesdroid give me the 3rd degree and the hard sell on buying one of their in-store warranty plans. Also, she tried to get me to pay them $40 to create a restore disc for me and clean off all the crapware. IDTS! I can do that myself, thankyewverymuch.

And that’s about all I have to say. I’ll be over here in the corner, transferring music files, if anyone needs me!

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Good Neighbors

Shelly

The guys who moved into the apartment above me are just night-and-day to the asswagon who lived there before them. They’re quiet, they say “Hi,” when you see them outside, and bless their hearts, they came down to warn me that they’re going to be shoveling their balcony, and which side did I prefer them to chuck the snow off? Huh? Dudes, ya’ll can chuck the snow anywhere you want! And thank you for even thinking to ask!

The old Mr. Upstairs used to throw trash and empty his vacuum off the balcony, which drove me nuts. And then there was the dirty mop water, with God only knows what sorts of chemicals in it. But snow? That they even thought to ask was awfully sweet. I hope they stick around for a long, long time, because they are awesome neighbors.