Expenditures Denied and Embraced
Mar. 20th, 2011 09:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
aseMumford and Sons is going to play in Oakland! AAAAAAHHHHH!
...it's sold out. AAAAUUUUUGH! [/charlie brown]
I will obviously have to acquire EPs.
Signs of the times: both downtown Borders locations are going out of business. Kobo ereaders are marked down to $60, but their pdf support is bad and .doc / html questionable, and when I got home I moved my laptop timeline up a bit. Someday I too will own an ereader - probably Kindle-flavored - but not this month.
After brief reflection and typing the above, I blew my laptop money on an Acer Aspire TimelineX AS4820TG 14" laptop. Goodbye, money. Hello, 4.65 pound laptop, i5 core, hard drive ten times the size of the baby laptop's, and advertised 8 hour battery life. I don't know how much the A/C adapter weighs, but with that sort of battery? I'm not sure I really care.
The drawback to life with roommates are the attitudes that may rub off. For example, it really wasn't necessary to give Roommate Number Three (who needs a better nickname) chocolate chip cookies and say, "these are for you, to go with the scones you made last week."
(Hint: Roommate Number Three was not trying to make scones.)
Surely urbandictionary.com has a word for the moment when you think, I'll look totally sophormoric, and I'm going to do it anyway. "Did it for the lulz" is uncomfortably close to the mark.
...it's sold out. AAAAUUUUUGH! [/charlie brown]
I will obviously have to acquire EPs.
Signs of the times: both downtown Borders locations are going out of business. Kobo ereaders are marked down to $60, but their pdf support is bad and .doc / html questionable, and when I got home I moved my laptop timeline up a bit. Someday I too will own an ereader - probably Kindle-flavored - but not this month.
After brief reflection and typing the above, I blew my laptop money on an Acer Aspire TimelineX AS4820TG 14" laptop. Goodbye, money. Hello, 4.65 pound laptop, i5 core, hard drive ten times the size of the baby laptop's, and advertised 8 hour battery life. I don't know how much the A/C adapter weighs, but with that sort of battery? I'm not sure I really care.
The drawback to life with roommates are the attitudes that may rub off. For example, it really wasn't necessary to give Roommate Number Three (who needs a better nickname) chocolate chip cookies and say, "these are for you, to go with the scones you made last week."
(Hint: Roommate Number Three was not trying to make scones.)
Surely urbandictionary.com has a word for the moment when you think, I'll look totally sophormoric, and I'm going to do it anyway. "Did it for the lulz" is uncomfortably close to the mark.
