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Weekend Update: Now with Extra Vooom™!
May. 9th, 2009 02:35 pmThis past week of no writing/music/etc due to PC woes (among other things) was actually a nice change, especially since I'm between projects at the moment. It was a nice slow-down, which gave me time to get my act together both work-wise and with life in general.
The past week in general was rather frustrating at first...starting with the PC issues, it went downhill quick with work frustration (including a major client issue that thankfully was taken care of by the end of the day). Which led to that post a few days ago about Carpe Diem. That was the point where I just got so frustrated that it was verging on getting pissed off. And that's usually the point where I go from stressed out to determined, and kick all kinds of ass to get stuff done, including my own.
Suffice it to say, by Thursday, everything was back to normal. Work slowed to a crawl in a good way, my PC is up and running well after a hard drive wipe/restore, and I've even been sleeping well the past few days! So yeah...what started as a craptastic week ended up quite nice. :)
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Today? We rode the F train down to the Ferry Building to stop at the farmer's market, and bought all sorts of goodies, including some chard and other greenery, a few things of strawberries, a handful of very shiny-looking cherries, and of course some cheese from the cheese vendor in the back that we always buy from. Not too much, but enough to keep us for a few days!
Also--shopping at Trader Joe's down the street, in which they stole my 80's mp3 collection for the day, playing the following while we were in the store:
--The Call, "Let the Day Begin"
--Thomas Dolby, "Europa and the Pirate Twins"
--Duran Duran, "Is There Something I Should Know?"
--Split Enz, "History Never Repeats"
--The Cure, "Let's Go to Bed"
Still, bought more foodstuffs there for lunch and later, as well as some local store-owned wine on sale ($3.99! Can't beat that with a stick! :p). Spent a good chunk of money here, but we always end up with a lot of stuff for our money, so it evens out.
Lastly, went up to the local library to donate two shopping bags worth of books (leftovers from the Great Book Purge that no one wanted--we still have about 2 boxes left, mostly hardcovers)...then down to the local B&N where I bought the latest Catherine Jinks book (The Reformed Vampire Support Group) as well as a new copy of Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front, which I've had a hankering to read again. And of course, the second coffee of the day was purchased at the Starbucks there.
Now? Hanging out, watching Mythbusters, and not much else. Going to be a GORGEOUS weekend, and we will most likely make the best of it by doing at least something outside at some point.
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Back to the PC for the moment--was able to redownload and update MS Office 2007to prove that I have priorities--I could have downloaded MediaMonkey first and hope to reupload/redownload a few other things, but I'm choosing to be a bit more spartan this time...I didn't have many programs on there to begin with, but before I did the drive wipe, I realized there were some programs on there I never used and therefore didn't really need on there. This time I'm going to make sure I download only stuff I need, added to the fact that I need to keep an eye out on what's running in the background (that is, what's running silently whether it's on or not), because that's part of what slows my PC down half the time.
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More soon...also, will most likely post something both at![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
jonchaisson (something to do with writing, natch) and edencycle (yes, as promised, Chapter 2 will be up soon!).
Hope everyone's having a good weekend! :)
The past week in general was rather frustrating at first...starting with the PC issues, it went downhill quick with work frustration (including a major client issue that thankfully was taken care of by the end of the day). Which led to that post a few days ago about Carpe Diem. That was the point where I just got so frustrated that it was verging on getting pissed off. And that's usually the point where I go from stressed out to determined, and kick all kinds of ass to get stuff done, including my own.
Suffice it to say, by Thursday, everything was back to normal. Work slowed to a crawl in a good way, my PC is up and running well after a hard drive wipe/restore, and I've even been sleeping well the past few days! So yeah...what started as a craptastic week ended up quite nice. :)
---
Today? We rode the F train down to the Ferry Building to stop at the farmer's market, and bought all sorts of goodies, including some chard and other greenery, a few things of strawberries, a handful of very shiny-looking cherries, and of course some cheese from the cheese vendor in the back that we always buy from. Not too much, but enough to keep us for a few days!
Also--shopping at Trader Joe's down the street, in which they stole my 80's mp3 collection for the day, playing the following while we were in the store:
--The Call, "Let the Day Begin"
--Thomas Dolby, "Europa and the Pirate Twins"
--Duran Duran, "Is There Something I Should Know?"
--Split Enz, "History Never Repeats"
--The Cure, "Let's Go to Bed"
Still, bought more foodstuffs there for lunch and later, as well as some local store-owned wine on sale ($3.99! Can't beat that with a stick! :p). Spent a good chunk of money here, but we always end up with a lot of stuff for our money, so it evens out.
Lastly, went up to the local library to donate two shopping bags worth of books (leftovers from the Great Book Purge that no one wanted--we still have about 2 boxes left, mostly hardcovers)...then down to the local B&N where I bought the latest Catherine Jinks book (The Reformed Vampire Support Group) as well as a new copy of Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front, which I've had a hankering to read again. And of course, the second coffee of the day was purchased at the Starbucks there.
Now? Hanging out, watching Mythbusters, and not much else. Going to be a GORGEOUS weekend, and we will most likely make the best of it by doing at least something outside at some point.
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Back to the PC for the moment--was able to redownload and update MS Office 2007
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More soon...also, will most likely post something both at
jonchaisson (something to do with writing, natch) and edencycle (yes, as promised, Chapter 2 will be up soon!).Hope everyone's having a good weekend! :)
