Month: August 2007

Ended up going home from work early yesterday. This killed me because I really need/want my vacation days (they are the same as sick days where I work) and I don't want to squander them on food poisoning. Oh well. So I went home and slept. Lots. I love sleep even when I'm not sick, but when I'm sick, sleep is even better. Anyhoo, I'm feeling way better today.

My laptop arrived yesterday. I am very excited to get it. But I didn't quite realize how big 17″ is. I don't think it will fit in my backpack. That said, it will be darn nice to play games and work with graphics on. Once I get everything sorted out.

See it came with Vista. I'm a bit opposed to Vista, cuz frankly, I think XP is grand. It's not like when we were all running 98 and it was so awful and it was nice to switch to something that worked. But anyhow, that's where it's going, so we went there with the new computer. Overall, it seems to mostly be a jazzier version of XP. But they put all your documents in weird places. Not sure what that's about. And for some reason that I haven't figured out yet, none of my fonts will load. It keeps saying their names are too long. I've got to figure out what's going on. I need those fonts. Sheesh.

I have some sort of nasty GI bug … food poisoning, methinks and I'm none too sharp at the moment. So you get the stuff that's rattling around in my brain.

I went crazy yesterday and bought Tabby this absolutely darling luggage. Cuz that's what every 5 month old needs, don'tcha know. I won't tell you how much it was, exactly, but I will tell you it was under $100 and on sale. Now I feel a bit better. It will not get here in time for the trip we're leaving on tomorrow.

Matt bought me a new laptop for my b'day which is arriving today. Hooray for that. I have found that I cannot use my stationary computer with any sort of success since Tabby was born. So now I will have a laptop that will go all over the house to wherever she needs to be. Anyhoo, since it shipped on Mon, I've been stalking it via FedEx's website. It started out in Shanghai, China (yet I still have to pay tax on it!!), then went to Anchorage, Alaska, then to Indianapolis, IN and now it's finally in Denver. It's a little sad that my consumer goods are more well traveled than I am.

Speaking of computer productivity, I actually managed to get Tabby's scrapbook started. This hurculean feat was possible only because I have decided to do this scrapbook digitally. I've always liked this idea, but have sometimes found it hard to get the pages printed as I would like them. But I googled “digital scrapbook printing” or something like that the other day and found Picaboo. Which is exactly that – a digital scrapbook service. They have laods of templates, etc. that you can use to make your own scrapbooks or you can do them up in Photoshop and import them as full pages for maxiumum control freak. I've already gotten a couple of pages done … and I didn't have to take out all of that scrapbooking stuff and make a big ol' mess. Continue reading “Nothing Coherent Today!”

Sent out a bookmooch on Saturday. I don't normally send them first class, but it was the same $$ as media mail, so I went ahead. Got the following response yesterday evening: “This person should have mentioned that the back cover was nearly torn off, especially when I asked when requesting the book if it was in pretty good shape. But I'm happy to have the book. Thanks!”. In addition, I was not given my point, which means that I will not get a mooch in exchange for this one.

This ticks me off for a couple reasons.
1) The book was in fine condition when I sent it. So either it got damaged in shiping, or the recipient is lying in order to jip me out of my point.
2) Can I quick like explain something? THIS IS A FREE BOOK. Why the heck are you being so freakin' choosy about what condition you get it in? Can you still read it? OK then. Cuz if you're looking for some first edition collectible sort of deal, look elsewhere.

Karma. Ohm. Karma. Ohm. Thanks for letting me get that off my chest.

Well, after all the craziness with Miss Tabby, we met up with our out of town guests, Matt's sister and her husband, Bryan, who Matt's brother, Andrew, was kind enough to pick up at the airport for us while we were finishing up with Tabby at the ER. I won't lie to you. Friday was consumed by a lot of sleep catching-up, but later that day we did manage to drive up Mount Evans. Sadly, it was pretty cloudy and we got some interesting photos but largely missed out on the spectacular views.

Saturday (my birthday!!) we visited Celestial Seasonings Tea Factory. Tabby and I sat out the tour because she wasn't allowed along and I'd been before. And we visited the Forney Museum, home of old trains and cars. Then we had dinner at Wynkoop.

Sunday we made breakfast at home and spent pretty much the entire day tubing on Clear Creek in Golden (Tabby got to visit Grandma). It is absolutely mad fun, but I got my shins (and bum) really banged up on all the rocks. I sat out the last run and stood on a bridge that goes over the creek to take photos of everyone.