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My eyes are still gummy, especially first thing in the morning (and the ointment I have to put in every night doesn't really help that problem) but it feels great to wear sunglasses while staring at the computer! I've had to adjust the brightness on this thing twice now due to the glare.
Yesterday I went to do some errands and found a cafe nearby. My brother suggested another one, even closer (they're both in my immediate housing area). So I went to Ode Cafe first, which is the closer one. It's an upstairs cafe, and you have to ring the doorbell just to get in (sigh, things I don't understand), but they have Tapping Tapir soda and a pretty decent chicken chop. I couldn't get WiFi though (my Asus seems temperamental) and had to migrate to another place in order to do my work. I did do a pretty decent editing session at Ode Cafe. It really is too bad I can't get WiFi there because it's a really nice cafe. So I went to RT cafe instead, but it doesn't have much by way of sweet drinks. They couldn't even tell me what brand of tea they use! (It's Serenity)
I am kind of sad that there are not many places as dedicated to teas and hot chocolate as there could be =(
Anyway, I did some bare minimum amount of work, and then continued to worry about my small press business. We checked the name variations last night (Sea Echo Press, Sea Echo, Echo Press) (my dad suggested The Straits Echo, which was a newspaper here in Peninsular Malaysia that his dad edited, which I considered but I wanted the name to reflect a wider range). Got my first major case of eye-strain!
But using my new laptop/tablet Asus Transformer I think will be pretty great. I still don't like touchscreens and Windows 8 is a terrible UI and Word 2013 is nothing to shout about (in fact it crowds out things there ought to be on there for quick reference). But I think it's definitely a thing I could use to read things in bed with, and annotate and edit stuff. I look forward to using it more, although now I REALLY hope it can pick up my California apartment's WiFi signal, because if it can't, I will cry.
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Yesterday I went to do some errands and found a cafe nearby. My brother suggested another one, even closer (they're both in my immediate housing area). So I went to Ode Cafe first, which is the closer one. It's an upstairs cafe, and you have to ring the doorbell just to get in (sigh, things I don't understand), but they have Tapping Tapir soda and a pretty decent chicken chop. I couldn't get WiFi though (my Asus seems temperamental) and had to migrate to another place in order to do my work. I did do a pretty decent editing session at Ode Cafe. It really is too bad I can't get WiFi there because it's a really nice cafe. So I went to RT cafe instead, but it doesn't have much by way of sweet drinks. They couldn't even tell me what brand of tea they use! (It's Serenity)
I am kind of sad that there are not many places as dedicated to teas and hot chocolate as there could be =(
Anyway, I did some bare minimum amount of work, and then continued to worry about my small press business. We checked the name variations last night (Sea Echo Press, Sea Echo, Echo Press) (my dad suggested The Straits Echo, which was a newspaper here in Peninsular Malaysia that his dad edited, which I considered but I wanted the name to reflect a wider range). Got my first major case of eye-strain!
But using my new laptop/tablet Asus Transformer I think will be pretty great. I still don't like touchscreens and Windows 8 is a terrible UI and Word 2013 is nothing to shout about (in fact it crowds out things there ought to be on there for quick reference). But I think it's definitely a thing I could use to read things in bed with, and annotate and edit stuff. I look forward to using it more, although now I REALLY hope it can pick up my California apartment's WiFi signal, because if it can't, I will cry.
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