So much babble
Jul. 25th, 2011 07:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
selenaySo, er, that new Doctor Who trailer looks rather swish. And exciting. Now I'm impatient :-)
My weekend was not exactly as planned, but it was still very good. Saturday was supposed to be roasting hot and humid, but the fog came in during the afternoon and it ended up being humid, oppressive, muggy, damp...and cold. Ick ick ick.
The fog rolled out in the evening, just in time for the evening sunlight to heat the upstairs up and make my bedroom horribly hot and muggy. Even more ick.
Sunday was originally forecast to be cooler, then they changed the forecast on Saturday (presumably when that unexpected chilly bit came in) and it turned out to be very warm and close. Ick ick ick again. We spent the day trying finding places with air con so that my aunt's lungs didn't collapse and then had supper out so that we didn't have to cook and heat the house up. Despite all that, I had a raging headache by bedtime probably because we went from muggy to clear in around two hours in the evening. Ugh. I'm so over the weather-induced headaches now.
It's also so difficult trying to work out cold supper options when you're not supposed to be eating beans, whole grains, raw veggies or large quantities of salad. My body does not make summer easy. Hence the eating out last night. Except our favourite Thai place is closed on Sundays (woe, no lemongrass pork for me) and I had to settle for sushi. Life is hard, sometimes *pathetic sigh*
Anyway, not the weekend we planned and I don't feel very rested (I want to have some sleep!) but I don't feel too bad today and the next weekend is a long one thanks to a provincial holiday. Woo!
The Tour ended over the weekend and was absolutely excellent. Definitely one of the best recent Tours :-)
That means I don't have Tour watching to do this week. My evenings suddenly look very weird and a bit empty. Tonight I may celebrate by spending the entire evening curled up with a book. That will be after Mum and I have had a nice walk on the beach :-)
I sort of quietly hate today because there is a perfect storm of 'stuff' happening at work and I'm feeling a wee bit harassed and overwhelmed. Why do people want answers on things on the one day that the person qualified to give answers is out? And why do I have to make decisions in their place? *whine whine whine*
Mum bought herself a Kobo Touch on Friday. Verdict: she loves it. Much easier to set up than her old Sony, easy to get to her books and read them, wi-fi makes buying books a doddle and even the library books are a bit easier to figure out. We've established that there is something going wrong with the actual downloads for some library books and we're not sure what that is yet, so it wasn't entirely her old reader's fault, but she's enjoying the uninterrupted nature of reading on a device that doesn't randomly turn itself off every few minutes.
Next thing: her netbook needs replacing. Argh. Why does she like to do these things when she's here so that I have to help rather than letting Dad do it? Hold on, I know the answer to that one: if she waits for Dad to help, it will be 2020 before she replaces these things and her old machines will be dead paperweights. Argh.
She's fallentotally a bit in love with the MacBook Air after playing with one, but she's never used a Mac before and I'm not 100% sure that this would be the right thing for her. Mostly I'm concerned about compatibility with things she does on her Windows netbook and the problem that neither Dad nor I are Mac users, so would be as clueless as her about it. Specifically, I'm concerned that she wouldn't be able to download and access library books on a Mac because Overdrive doesn't like Macs and our library uses Overdrive.
However, it is incredibly thin and light and pretty.
ETA: Someone just reminded me that you can dual boot a Mac and then she's be able to have a Windows set-up as well, for the things that really don't work on the Mac OS. Damn, it's getting harder to find arguments against it.
She's looking at a few other, Windows-based things. I think she's tempted by the things that convert between tablets and netbooks. Any opinions out there about those? Worth it or better sticking to one or the other?
Any netbooks I should avoid/steer her away from? Or towards?
I really need a vacation. I've tentatively booked a week in October. It's dependent completely on whether my father can resist the temptation to work throughout his visit here (in October) and how much of a miserable bastard he'll be if Mum and I go out to do fun stuff when I ends up working. I'm fully prepared to move it to November if he decides to do his usual because I want to enjoy my vacation, not tread on egg-shells because he's a workaholic who resents us for abandoning him to his work. Bitter? Me? Never!
My weekend was not exactly as planned, but it was still very good. Saturday was supposed to be roasting hot and humid, but the fog came in during the afternoon and it ended up being humid, oppressive, muggy, damp...and cold. Ick ick ick.
The fog rolled out in the evening, just in time for the evening sunlight to heat the upstairs up and make my bedroom horribly hot and muggy. Even more ick.
Sunday was originally forecast to be cooler, then they changed the forecast on Saturday (presumably when that unexpected chilly bit came in) and it turned out to be very warm and close. Ick ick ick again. We spent the day trying finding places with air con so that my aunt's lungs didn't collapse and then had supper out so that we didn't have to cook and heat the house up. Despite all that, I had a raging headache by bedtime probably because we went from muggy to clear in around two hours in the evening. Ugh. I'm so over the weather-induced headaches now.
It's also so difficult trying to work out cold supper options when you're not supposed to be eating beans, whole grains, raw veggies or large quantities of salad. My body does not make summer easy. Hence the eating out last night. Except our favourite Thai place is closed on Sundays (woe, no lemongrass pork for me) and I had to settle for sushi. Life is hard, sometimes *pathetic sigh*
Anyway, not the weekend we planned and I don't feel very rested (I want to have some sleep!) but I don't feel too bad today and the next weekend is a long one thanks to a provincial holiday. Woo!
The Tour ended over the weekend and was absolutely excellent. Definitely one of the best recent Tours :-)
That means I don't have Tour watching to do this week. My evenings suddenly look very weird and a bit empty. Tonight I may celebrate by spending the entire evening curled up with a book. That will be after Mum and I have had a nice walk on the beach :-)
I sort of quietly hate today because there is a perfect storm of 'stuff' happening at work and I'm feeling a wee bit harassed and overwhelmed. Why do people want answers on things on the one day that the person qualified to give answers is out? And why do I have to make decisions in their place? *whine whine whine*
Mum bought herself a Kobo Touch on Friday. Verdict: she loves it. Much easier to set up than her old Sony, easy to get to her books and read them, wi-fi makes buying books a doddle and even the library books are a bit easier to figure out. We've established that there is something going wrong with the actual downloads for some library books and we're not sure what that is yet, so it wasn't entirely her old reader's fault, but she's enjoying the uninterrupted nature of reading on a device that doesn't randomly turn itself off every few minutes.
Next thing: her netbook needs replacing. Argh. Why does she like to do these things when she's here so that I have to help rather than letting Dad do it? Hold on, I know the answer to that one: if she waits for Dad to help, it will be 2020 before she replaces these things and her old machines will be dead paperweights. Argh.
She's fallen
However, it is incredibly thin and light and pretty.
ETA: Someone just reminded me that you can dual boot a Mac and then she's be able to have a Windows set-up as well, for the things that really don't work on the Mac OS. Damn, it's getting harder to find arguments against it.
She's looking at a few other, Windows-based things. I think she's tempted by the things that convert between tablets and netbooks. Any opinions out there about those? Worth it or better sticking to one or the other?
Any netbooks I should avoid/steer her away from? Or towards?
I really need a vacation. I've tentatively booked a week in October. It's dependent completely on whether my father can resist the temptation to work throughout his visit here (in October) and how much of a miserable bastard he'll be if Mum and I go out to do fun stuff when I ends up working. I'm fully prepared to move it to November if he decides to do his usual because I want to enjoy my vacation, not tread on egg-shells because he's a workaholic who resents us for abandoning him to his work. Bitter? Me? Never!
