Of presents and other stuff
Well, that's the Christmas/Chanuka celebrations over and done with for another year. My best presents were a laptop chill mat from my mother and a vanishing TARDIS mug from my sister. The chill mat is brilliant. It has two fans so it plugs into a USB port and that helps disperse the heat from the laptop. I hoped that the fans wouldn't be too
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Folding headphones do sound like they'd be quite useful, both for ease of travel and for drowning out annoying peoples. That's a shame that it's been so hard to find good ones. The reviews on Amazon for the Skullcandy headphones seem quite good in terms of sound quality but there are several complaints about durability, so if you get those you might have to be extra careful with them. :-/
Yay also for all the art supplies! Feh to having to pay £3 for such a tiny bottle of ink though. But hopefully it'll be fun to have a go at pen and ink drawing. :) Triple feh to still having homework left to do. That's so annoying. Is there much of it?
I'm sorry my present is getting there late. :( I hope it arrives soon!
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The reviews on the Argos site were about the same, saying they were really good sound quality but with mixed reviews about the durability. I'd take care of them anyway because I know it's really easy to break the leads.
There's too much homework left to do because there's still any left to do!
There's been no sign of your present so far and there won't be any delivery now till Tuesday :(
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You make a v good point about the homework! Will you get to have any proper days off or are you going to have to keep working on it right up until classes start again?
Oh no. :( I hope it arrives on Tuesday! I wish I'd sent it earlier but I hope it's just delayed and not lost. I s'pose it'll be a sort of bonus extended-Chanuka thing. 'Just when you thought Chanuka was well and truly over ... *present!*'
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I spent the first full week of my holiday doing homework, so that's from December 19 to 23. And then I had a nice long break! I didn't have much left to do after that so it just took me one day to finish it off. I worked on it all day Monday and then printed it out yesterday. I got the last bits done in class this afternoon, as that was just sticking it in my sketchbook and writing up the evaluation.
There is still no sign of the present :-/
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Oh and my A3 folder came from Staples, they had plenty of choice but I went for a cheap (<£2) what is essentially a zip-lock bag type as it's just to store archival photocopies in.
The laptop fan is a really clever idea, at uni I use one of my textbooks as a laptop balancing stand so the air circulates, it doesn't really help.
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I had a look at Staples but they didn't have anything that was A3 sized. I need a decent folder because it will be carrying a lot of stuff, including my layout pad. I was thinking of something like this one.
The laptop chill mat is awesome. My laptop pumps out a hell of a lot of heat and the mat really does make a difference. And it's currently half price!
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I have an A4 sized one like that, and it's pretty sturdy and a good make. I also have an A1 (or 2 maybe?) size containing my architectural board display from work experience back when I was 16, bit cracked in the corners from wear and tear but still doing the job.
I think I need to open it up and clean the fan of dust, the last time I had the back off was Dec 2010 when I changed some of the upper plastics. Although the chill mat might be a purchase for later in the month when the uni continues to boil us...
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