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Feb. 16th, 2016 04:51 pmThe old one collapsed from heat stroke when i tried to run the new game on it, so that was a bummer. This one is a microsoft answer to the new Mac laptops - solid state hard drive (which is SILENT, and quite amazing) and a LOT of RAM - everything goes faster even running Win 10. Which doesn't suck. So that is nice as well.
Actually the greatest trick I did was logging into Firefox and syncing everything - I got all my bookmarks and tricks and shortcuts and add-ons all in one fell swoop. Probably it is a security nightmare, but it makes life much easier.
Now Alice and I are watching the rain pelting down. We drove to see my mother yesterday, a moderately fast moving out and back, made easy by the lack of sun in anyone's eyes and slightly nervewracking from the impending snow. My mother's fine, cheerful, back to being alone in her house. She likes her dog and cats, and really gets flustered and deeply grumpy when anyone is sharing her house for too long. She had been sheltering a friend of a friend until elder housing opened up in town, and six months was more than enough for mum, especially since was supposed to be for a few weeks.
Anyway, yesterday reaffirmed that the point to a road trip is the company while driving, not whatever you are driving to. Alice and I talked steadily for nearly six hours about school, how to fix it for people who didn't want to be there, how to make it better for people who did want to be there, with side trips into recent favorite books and strange stories about her, when she was tiny.
The driving was easy yesterday but some combination of driving and weather gave me a spectacular headache this morning. Eventually it yielded to medication. I am so grateful to have meds that work. And then some breakfast with one set of smart funny women and some groceries and I am done. Tomorrow is talk to the Dr about headaches and any other meds that might make the bad ones easier, and then Alice has a physical in the afternoon. In between I am at the school, during school vacation which is remarkably peaceful, working on the set. Once the rain stops I will pound the pavements seeking advertising. ew.
Actually the greatest trick I did was logging into Firefox and syncing everything - I got all my bookmarks and tricks and shortcuts and add-ons all in one fell swoop. Probably it is a security nightmare, but it makes life much easier.
Now Alice and I are watching the rain pelting down. We drove to see my mother yesterday, a moderately fast moving out and back, made easy by the lack of sun in anyone's eyes and slightly nervewracking from the impending snow. My mother's fine, cheerful, back to being alone in her house. She likes her dog and cats, and really gets flustered and deeply grumpy when anyone is sharing her house for too long. She had been sheltering a friend of a friend until elder housing opened up in town, and six months was more than enough for mum, especially since was supposed to be for a few weeks.
Anyway, yesterday reaffirmed that the point to a road trip is the company while driving, not whatever you are driving to. Alice and I talked steadily for nearly six hours about school, how to fix it for people who didn't want to be there, how to make it better for people who did want to be there, with side trips into recent favorite books and strange stories about her, when she was tiny.
The driving was easy yesterday but some combination of driving and weather gave me a spectacular headache this morning. Eventually it yielded to medication. I am so grateful to have meds that work. And then some breakfast with one set of smart funny women and some groceries and I am done. Tomorrow is talk to the Dr about headaches and any other meds that might make the bad ones easier, and then Alice has a physical in the afternoon. In between I am at the school, during school vacation which is remarkably peaceful, working on the set. Once the rain stops I will pound the pavements seeking advertising. ew.