Out of sight out of mind…
The cycle is complete – I threw the Vista laptop in the trash. Now, this may seem wasteful but the repair to the motherboard was going to be a nebulous “at least $200″ from a local geek shop and I just bought the ASUStek eee (which is great, by the way, except for the right side shift key – too small but I’m adjusting) for a little bit more and I still have the Sony Vaio. Instead I bought a 120g drive for the Sony and set it up without all the crap Sony had on it when I bought it. Since it is the 15.4″ size it functions as the desktop but I sync it with the eee. I will say it one more time, just for fun, Vista sucks – completely.
I left Norman, OK last Sunday and the temp was 22 degrees. Just North of Lafayette the rain slowed me down to 40 mph and it was a bit surreal to see all of the treefrogs and bullfrogs leaping across the road in the path of my light beams and tires. It was 73 degrees and I was just a few hours removed (well, 9 or so hours) from longjohns and gloves. Now I was watching frogs.
I don’t think I’ll ever get used to seeing alligators. The shape seems to be burned into the part of my brain stem which says “That’s not good. You should think of running, now!” I saw another one today, about four feet long, sunning on the side of the bar ditch on 3213 as I drove to the Gramercy Bridge. I do not mind warm winter weather but my preference would be to see to an ocean while wearing shirtsleeves in January.
Mars out.
Tags: alligator, windows vista
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