Home, home again...
Aug. 29th, 2003 10:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
robotech_masterWell, did the two hours and got home all right. Other news since the last entry: I spoke to my landlord's appliance repair man, and he set up a time to come over tomorrow evening and take a look. He says that the problem is likely the fridge needs defrosting again, and I have to agree that's likely—I remember how when I moved in, the freezer floor was bowed out to where there was only half the usable space in the freezer. Come to think of it, the floor does look a little bulged again. Anyway, he's asked me to unplug it tomorrow morning, so it can have time to melt out by the time he gets here tomorrow evening. Ah well. I was resigned to losing all the frozen stuff anyway, and most of what's in the fridge portion now (juice, beer, and stuff) won't suffer from being warm for a while.
After getting home from work, the first thing I did was get onto Amazon.com and place an order for a book as a thank-you gift to my Aunt Becky. I chose one that will surely amuse her, assuming she doesn't have it already: The Silent Miaow by Paul Gallico. It's a photo-illustrated book that was supposedly written by a cat on a handy typewriter, as a manual of instructions to young kittens. Aunt Becky's done so much for me over the last few days, I figured it was only appropriate.
At the moment, I'm relaxed on my bed, leaning back against a body pillow I picked up at the Target ("tar-ZHAY") at the same time as the lap table. Heh...this table is really great. For $20, I expected something rather flimsy but serviceable until something better came along—but in fact, it's turned out to be a very nice piece of furniture. It's probably cheap lumber or fiberboard with a cherry veneer, but for all of that, it's very sturdy and stable. And with the lengthy power supply and speaker cables, I can hook it up to the speakers on my cardboard dressers and play music while I'm sitting right here in bed. Very spacious, too; my laptop fits on with plenty of room to spare for if I wanted to hook up the external mouse.
I really ought to get in bed, and probably will within a few minutes. But for a while, I just wanted to enjoy this quiet evening time, sitting here in comfort merrily keyboarding away. This is precisely what I bought this laptop for in the first place.
After getting home from work, the first thing I did was get onto Amazon.com and place an order for a book as a thank-you gift to my Aunt Becky. I chose one that will surely amuse her, assuming she doesn't have it already: The Silent Miaow by Paul Gallico. It's a photo-illustrated book that was supposedly written by a cat on a handy typewriter, as a manual of instructions to young kittens. Aunt Becky's done so much for me over the last few days, I figured it was only appropriate.
At the moment, I'm relaxed on my bed, leaning back against a body pillow I picked up at the Target ("tar-ZHAY") at the same time as the lap table. Heh...this table is really great. For $20, I expected something rather flimsy but serviceable until something better came along—but in fact, it's turned out to be a very nice piece of furniture. It's probably cheap lumber or fiberboard with a cherry veneer, but for all of that, it's very sturdy and stable. And with the lengthy power supply and speaker cables, I can hook it up to the speakers on my cardboard dressers and play music while I'm sitting right here in bed. Very spacious, too; my laptop fits on with plenty of room to spare for if I wanted to hook up the external mouse.
I really ought to get in bed, and probably will within a few minutes. But for a while, I just wanted to enjoy this quiet evening time, sitting here in comfort merrily keyboarding away. This is precisely what I bought this laptop for in the first place.
