My commute officially sucks. Even watching the Dr. Jackson show (SG-1 for the rest of you), I can't seem to stay awake on the bus or once I get home. I passed out last night sitting on the futon talking to A. and watching Dr. Jackson while we were discussing the finer points of negligee selection. How truly pathetic. I mean, really, I should be able to stay awake latter than 9:15 on a Monday.
I don't seem to remember getting this exhausted when I was carpooling. I can't think why that would be, I got up at the same time in the morning, and didn't get home that much earlier. I did have time to eat breakfast and maybe make coffee though, which is something. Having a more leisurely morning makes a difference. As it is, I usually hit snooze one too many times, have to rush through getting dressed and ready, and then run out the door with an apple in my mouth like a suckling pig, if I'm lucky. By the time I've made it to the bus I'm all sleepy again.
It occurred to me this morning that my coffee machine has an auto-on timer. Why do I never use this wonderful and convenient feature? Probably for the same reason that I have yet to pry the porn out of the VCR.
I've also decided that I really need a new laptop. The sad little G3 iBook is totally inadequate to the task of running more than 2 applications at once, watching movies, burning CD's, or really doing anything at all other checking email, maybe some lite web surfing, and holding down papers. Editing pictures is a joke, and trying to watch the Dr. Jackson show gets kind of painful whenever the action is too fast and the audio track gets out of sync with the video. Ok, I knew Herodotus's days were numbered (Herodotus being the iBook, and also the Greek historian) way back in October when I was finally got around to upgrading the OS, but this is getting silly. It needs the following:
More RAM. Lots more RAM
A DVD/CD RW
A larger hard drive (that 15 gigs is pathetic is scary, my first computer had a 256MB hard drive, I have that much RAM now, and that's not even close to enough, and this makes me feel old)
Better/faster graphics processor
An Airport card
Another OS upgrade I now have to pay for
USB 2 (which I can't fix, but hey! There are 2 useless old USB 1.1 ports! I should be glad)
So I think, once all this gets tracked down on eBay and various other places, I might as well just buy a new machine with all that extra cash I have lying around (heavy sarcasm here). I want a PowerBook. In fact, I want this PowerBook but with more RAM and the SuperDrive.
Hacking together some kind of system that will work for most things is very geeky and will just have to do for now. There are enough people with old hardware lying around that I should be able to get something reasonable put together to solve at least some of my storage problems, but I doubt there is much to be done about the Airport card or crap graphics. The real question is how much money I should sink into getting more RAM for a machine I intend to replace within the next 6 months.
No more news from any of the law schools...or from work. Eck. So far, I've pretty much decided to go with Santa Clara. Of the available options it will probably cost more out of pocket but the school is better so I'll be able to repay those loans faster.
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