Caught In The Whirlwind
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Counting Down The Days
Oct 7th 2009
Things have been, thankfully, quiet this week, with only a few minor events to write about. And after last week…yeah, I think I’ll take quiet any day.
So, first up, we’ve discovered we have a mouse in our apartment. My roommates cat has been stalking our dishwasher for the past few weeks and last night, Jay found her with a mouse in her mouth, looking totally confused as to what she should be doing now.
She dropped it, which lead to a merry chase as we tried to capture it. It escaped into one of the electrical baseboard heaters in the downstairs bathroom and the cat seems to have given up the hunt. So I’m not sure if it’s gone or lost or what. I’ll update if the saga continues.
Other than that, things have been, as mentioned, uneventful. I’m mostly just playing persona 4 at the moment and working on my mom’s website design off and on. I’m trying to draw up a spool of thread in Adobe Illustrator that I can use in the header as it needs something. Hoping to get that done today so I can also use it in my Digital Typography class tomorrow when I’m making up an envelope design for her too. Figured might as well combine projects!
The big thing I’m waiting for now is Saturday, where my friends and I are going to head down to, among other places, Bully Hill Vineyards in the finger lakes wine country for some wine tasting, hopefully touring and dinner. We’re also going to try to hit a couple other places in the area, including a micro-brewery. But we’re concentrating mostly on Bully Hill as far as time spent goes. Should be a good time I think.
QotD: What A Waste
Jan 8th 2007
What’s something you bought, knowing it was a total waste of money?
I usually don’t buy things that are a waste in the sense of “I’m never, ever going to use this thing…” but I do have a tendency to buy replacements for things which still work perfectly well. I’m most guilty of this in the computer mice department. I have a drawer that has a bunch of perfectly good mice that I just stopped using because Logitech released a new mouse. I’m trying to curb my spending habits here, but, for some reason I just can’t resist a cool new mouse.
More expensively, It’s been with laptop computers. My last laptop before the MacBook was still working all right before I made the switch. It was acting a little strangely, but nothing too terribly bad. But the MacBook Pro was new and all shiny and I just had to have one.
Just a few examples of my “replacing things that are still working fine” problem.
Oooh, Buttons!
Aug 27th 2006
I’m pathetic. As mentioned in a previous post of mine…I have some sort of a thing for new mice. I’m not entirely sure what it is about them, but I see something with a scroll wheel and some buttons and I just have to have it.
So it’s not surprising that I just purchased a Logitech V400 notebook mouse for my MacBook Pro. It being a 5 button + tilting scroll wheel, compact mouse with a built in place to stick the USB receiver part. It’s really pretty nice. I played about 2.5 hours of City of Heroes using it while on a Task Force and it’s pretty comfortable for it’s size.
I’m a sucker for mice.

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