...and into the weekend
Thank God that's over with. After a futile attempt to tape together two large shipping boxes to send the busted chair back to Amazon, I was saved by a staffer at Staples who knocked the foot-star off with a tire iron, dismounted the cylinder from the seat with a DeWalt power screwdriver, and brought me a couple of empty chair boxes to replace the mess I 'd brought in. Didn't even have to buy a new roll of packing tape. After that I came home and crashed, but only for about four hours; woke up around 0100 and after a couple hours wasted on the internet am finally going to buckle down and do Friday's Live at Five.
Yesterday also saw the acquisition of new shoes, roughly $60 worth of protein bars and other groceries, and some cleaning supplies for the bathroom (toilet bowl cleaner) and myself (wet wipes). After I woke up, I bought the last two Ultravox! (not to be confused with Ultravox) albums, Systems Of Romance
and Ha! Ha! Ha!
, which will fill gaps in the music inventory. Thought about picking up Rome: Total War - Gold Edition
as well, but I'm thinking it would make more sense to wait and see if a new video card brings the Gateway desktop back into service. It looks like it would run okay on the netbook, but still...nah. Not now.
So, on the agenda for today: blogging, going out to the Post Office to retrieve a package (and hopefully a check), taking in Ender's Game, and attending RS' birthday party, which interestingly enough is being held at a Chinese restaurant a couple doors down from the complex in Crystal City where I lived for about a month. In between the blogging and everything else, 6-8 hours of sleep.
Yesterday also saw the acquisition of new shoes, roughly $60 worth of protein bars and other groceries, and some cleaning supplies for the bathroom (toilet bowl cleaner) and myself (wet wipes). After I woke up, I bought the last two Ultravox! (not to be confused with Ultravox) albums, Systems Of Romance
and Ha! Ha! Ha!
, which will fill gaps in the music inventory. Thought about picking up Rome: Total War - Gold Edition
as well, but I'm thinking it would make more sense to wait and see if a new video card brings the Gateway desktop back into service. It looks like it would run okay on the netbook, but still...nah. Not now.
So, on the agenda for today: blogging, going out to the Post Office to retrieve a package (and hopefully a check), taking in Ender's Game, and attending RS' birthday party, which interestingly enough is being held at a Chinese restaurant a couple doors down from the complex in Crystal City where I lived for about a month. In between the blogging and everything else, 6-8 hours of sleep.