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A rundown of today
Aug. 2nd, 2002 03:31 amGot a phone call at 3:30pm. "Ivy! Ivy!" my friend J. squeals. Okay maybe he didn't squeal. "I was in the computer shop and your computer was there! I saw it!"
4:15pm: I have fed the dog, found my keys, found my wallet, found enough change for bus fare, and I am waiting for the city bus to take me downtown.
5pm: I am eating a terrible, terrible dinner of a take out toasted tomato, bacon and cheese sandwich, fries with gravy, and an iced tea. It is terrible for me but is extremely delicious. I am wolfing this down in the bus station.
5:15pm: I am in transit to Toronto.
6:30pm: I am in Toronto, in the 33 degree heat, bouncing happily over to J.'s house.
6:35pm: I see my laptop, running so quietly you could hear a pin drop, sitting on his table.
7pm: J.'s wife's sister arrives, after an absence of 10 years, with 12 year old daughter in tow. They speak very little english, but perfect Japanese.
8:30pm I decide to leave the family to do family things, and head back to the bus to go home. I get a second cup chiller (no flavour, just the regular expresso with ice), and play with my new office 2001 while waiting for the bus. Have discovered that one of the inovations of 2001 over 98 was to make it blindingly impossible to change the default font. I notice that my battery is still fux0red, but I am too happy with my quiet HD and functioning power plug to really care yet.
10pm: I walk into my sister's house, and my brother-in-law is half-naked. Whoops. Probably best to, say, knock, and wait for the door to open, rather than knock, and waltz in. No one seems to really mind, though.
10:10pm: make sly joke about my nephew being named after my computer of choice (MACS!), but only I think this is funny.
11pm: my brother-in-law and I get slurpees while my sister nurses MACS! (Tee heheehe yes, only I think this is funny. Still.)
11:10pm: I walk the dog for 20 seconds.
11:10:21pm: I curse about lack of extension cords, and set up my computer outside.
11:20pm: I find an extension cord. I sit outside on the patio mostly naked, because it is 31 degrees. Mosquitoes bite my ass. I proceed to download everything I think I need on a 56k connection. This starts with: MSN, AIM (Which, btw, if you're using 9.X, do NOT download the new version for 9.X. Holy Mother of GOD what a sack of wet horseshit that is. It crashed me everytime I closed a window, and made me speak in arabic. I downloaded an older version and am now happier), a-dock, x-launch, transmit (my ftp client of choice), phoenix (my lj client), and itunes. Though, of course, I have no MP3s, and I don't have limewire yet. Very handy.
12:30am: cry over sweet birthday lj posts. *weeps* I love you guys. Decided to round up my age and declare this my 30th birthday. My (older) sister, who is not yet 30, does not like this idea.
3:22am: decide to lj the whole process, because you should all be as bored as I am.
3:24am: notice that it is raining. Rush inside to save newly fixed computer. Notice a strange hum from my new HD. Cry.
4:15pm: I have fed the dog, found my keys, found my wallet, found enough change for bus fare, and I am waiting for the city bus to take me downtown.
5pm: I am eating a terrible, terrible dinner of a take out toasted tomato, bacon and cheese sandwich, fries with gravy, and an iced tea. It is terrible for me but is extremely delicious. I am wolfing this down in the bus station.
5:15pm: I am in transit to Toronto.
6:30pm: I am in Toronto, in the 33 degree heat, bouncing happily over to J.'s house.
6:35pm: I see my laptop, running so quietly you could hear a pin drop, sitting on his table.
7pm: J.'s wife's sister arrives, after an absence of 10 years, with 12 year old daughter in tow. They speak very little english, but perfect Japanese.
8:30pm I decide to leave the family to do family things, and head back to the bus to go home. I get a second cup chiller (no flavour, just the regular expresso with ice), and play with my new office 2001 while waiting for the bus. Have discovered that one of the inovations of 2001 over 98 was to make it blindingly impossible to change the default font. I notice that my battery is still fux0red, but I am too happy with my quiet HD and functioning power plug to really care yet.
10pm: I walk into my sister's house, and my brother-in-law is half-naked. Whoops. Probably best to, say, knock, and wait for the door to open, rather than knock, and waltz in. No one seems to really mind, though.
10:10pm: make sly joke about my nephew being named after my computer of choice (MACS!), but only I think this is funny.
11pm: my brother-in-law and I get slurpees while my sister nurses MACS! (Tee heheehe yes, only I think this is funny. Still.)
11:10pm: I walk the dog for 20 seconds.
11:10:21pm: I curse about lack of extension cords, and set up my computer outside.
11:20pm: I find an extension cord. I sit outside on the patio mostly naked, because it is 31 degrees. Mosquitoes bite my ass. I proceed to download everything I think I need on a 56k connection. This starts with: MSN, AIM (Which, btw, if you're using 9.X, do NOT download the new version for 9.X. Holy Mother of GOD what a sack of wet horseshit that is. It crashed me everytime I closed a window, and made me speak in arabic. I downloaded an older version and am now happier), a-dock, x-launch, transmit (my ftp client of choice), phoenix (my lj client), and itunes. Though, of course, I have no MP3s, and I don't have limewire yet. Very handy.
12:30am: cry over sweet birthday lj posts. *weeps* I love you guys. Decided to round up my age and declare this my 30th birthday. My (older) sister, who is not yet 30, does not like this idea.
3:22am: decide to lj the whole process, because you should all be as bored as I am.
3:24am: notice that it is raining. Rush inside to save newly fixed computer. Notice a strange hum from my new HD. Cry.
