I did a few things yesterday, however, my day was cut a bit short. I had to help someone out. As I said, some of what I had planned to do was done. Today I have a small list of things to do and people to call. I think I will begin taking my bookshelves, end tables, bed stands, and coffee table apart and secured for travel. A few business calls could be made as well. I already called my mother and checked in. She sounds to be in good spirits. We had a fine conversation.
I might be able to get some laundry and cleaning done between the small tasks. I also have my mind on packing the kitchen. I am not sure I will get to that today, it depends on how fast the rest of it goes. I am also looking to sort, alphabetize, then store my music CDs. In time, these will be done. I never can really tell how long a job will take, I have learned. I did receive an email from a Marine officer concerning renting his apartment. I suggested I would certainly be interested, but that I had either missed a previous email OR he needs to send details for me to consider the offer. To be honest, dealing with service personal is a preferred thing, for me, on average. The military imprints some, often good, things on it's people.
I best get going. Oh, one other thing. I believe I am going to check out one of the notebooks today. I am not sure I will buy, but I would like to look. If I get enough done, I will go to Best Buy this evening as I am winding down. I would like to look at them, check the keyboards, and see if there is a machine locally and readily available with a solid Linux OS. I just do not trust Microsoft. Between Microsoft's own intrusions, the insecurity of it's OS, and the instability along with the weak to nonexistent support leaves me completely against buying anything else from them if I can at all avoid it. Unless I just chance on the perfect (and very inexpensive system), I probably will not buy. It will be nice to look, now that I have an idea of what I want.
Drats! I was going to mow today, but it looks like it has been raining and further, that it will rain some more. Oh well, perhaps tomorrow.
Hey! Have a great day.
Raining on and off out here too. Is good for the farmers and all that, but not so great when you have earn some extra money outside.
ReplyDeletePersonally, I'm thinking about a Dell Inspiron 10v, with the solid-state drive and extra battery. Cheap, low power usage, and it's nice and portable. Ubuntu runs like a dream on these netbooks, too.
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ReplyDeleteI don't know what you do for extra money, but I am trying to get in some mowing. Not my favorite job, but I said I would. But we keep getting rain, and lots of it. Plus, we have hail and tornado watches, on top of thunderstorms. Bah! Good luck there.
I actually wish I could get out in it though. If I cannot work in it, I do like to play in rain. But with the move off to a potentially fatally slow start, I just cannot do it. Heck, I overslept yesterday... not the morning, or afternoon, but the whole day! I didn't realize it ever was Wednesday. GAA AAC CKK! Seriously, this is troubling.
SF,
Yeah, I have been looking at Dell, Asus, HP, and several others. I won't buy Dell, they use politics inside of their sales. A gun shop owner, with "gun" somewhere in his email, was having trouble getting his computer. I cannot remember the email address, but it was rather harmless, like, Jake'sguns@..., or something like it, nothing radical there at all. They ran him around for a couple of months after it was due to have arrived, then finally told him his order had been canceled since it had "gun" in it, and that could be bad. I wrote them a reasonable email questioning them on the details. I never heard back.
But Asus's little machines might work well too. And, Verizon, I think, has a portable hotspot/modem (plugged in, it's a modem, unplugged, it's a hotspot). It can only handle five devices, but how cool is that? And, it's, I think, smaller than a deck of cards. I have been thinking about it seriously, even if you need a $60 (or so) monthly plan with it. So long as you could get cell, you could use it. Great for blogging from the outdoors, or parts of it. Tech toys can be so neat, and such a bother.