Voice Post

Now What?

I feel like an old Army commercial - I did more by 10:30 this morning than I usually accomplish all day. Started the morning by turning all the calendars in the apartment to April, and making an omelette for breakfast. Took the DVD player back to Circuit City, and the guy at the returns desk was such an asshole that I decided not to buy the replacement machine there. Drove down the block to Radio Snack, and paid $30 more for a cute portable player with 7" screen, A/V input & output with cables included. Even has a car power adapter. Then back half a block to Petco for a bag of cat food. Iams has something allegedly perfect for my two felines. It's called indoor mature cat food, which means it's lower in things that will make them fat, randomly urinating, hairball-spewing old farts. Domino is in the neighborhood of 10 years old (the pound thought she was 18 months old when I adopted her in 1997, but I think she was older) and Pumpkin is pretty darn close to 8 - I adopted him as a kitten Halloween week of 1998. Check out their web page.

Got home and tested the now-charged bluetooth headset from yesterday. It works well. Unwrapped the DVD player, made sure everything worked, then set it on the charger just in case I want to watch on the plane. Will take my 3 Netflix nostalgia discs with me - Mildred Pierce, Grand Hotel and Hairspray. Can you sing "one of these things is not like the other"? :-)

Tested LJ's voice post feature, and it is very good quality for a cell phone recording. I am pleased.

Had lunch, and felt like I was still low on blood sugar, so headed for Piazzi's to stock up on Something Chocolate™. I got there alongside the entire 4-busload contingent of teenaged choir members. Needless to say, the chocolates aisle was jammed. So I detoured to produce, got a couple of oranges, bananas and apples and then wedged myself into the chocolate section. And was amazed to find eight whole Scharffen-Berger 82% bars. They have been hard to find lately, even on the makers' web page.

Currently listening to The Best of Shel Silverstein which brings back memories from unexpected places. So far at least three songs I had no idea he had written.

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Next on the to-do list:

• Enter my latest purchases into Quicken


• Turn all the clocks ahead an hour


• Email a couple of people about my trip


• Record a voice email message to my aunt & uncle (uncle Dave has severe macular degeneration, so I speak my email to him)


• Gas up the car


• Drive over to scendan's for dinner.

Two more accomplishments today

Took apart the old PC. Its drives are now scrubbed, and the old case has been thrown into the dumpster. Here is what remains:



Front left to right:
Matching pairs of Western Digital WD1200 120GB EIDE and WD2500 250GB SATA hard drives, Gigabyte GV-R955256D(ATI Radeon) display adapter.
Rear left to right:
Allied 500W power supply, Assorted SATA, IDE and floppy cables, 80mm fans, dual USB + Midi adapter, Epson floppy disc drive, Pioneer DVI-A03 DVD-R/RW drive, ASUS P4C800 Deluxe - UAY0 motherboard with 1GB PC-3200 DDR RAM (2x 512MB), P4 3.2 GHz* CPU and Intel heat sink/fan assembly.

*Could be 3.1GHz, I forget, and can't find the receipt.

These all go on eBay Real Soon Now, unless someone wants to make me an offer I can't refuse.

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Also got off my butt and hauled two 2-drawer file cabinets out of the computer room closet and tossed them into the dumpster. The sliders were munged, and I replaced these puppies about a year ago with a 4-drawer unit. They have been in the closet ever since, acting as a table on which to place other junk, like the sewing machine and an oldy moldy MIDI keyboard. With those gone, there is room for the Mac G3, and I can get to my collection of carry-on luggage and knapsacks.

Rainbows

Last night on my way to Marilyn's, a rainbow followed me all the way from work to her block. ( Phone camera rainbowy goodness behind the cut )