Yes, I know I've been very quiet this week....ooooops, sorry! FH is home and we are enjoying a week of hanging out, watching movies, and catching up.
8 days til Dominican! So I promise lots of photos and reports from that. :)
Friday, February 27, 2009
Monday, February 23, 2009
Hurry up!
FH's ship has been alongside for two hours now....and they still haven't been released. Hurry up dammit!
:)
Edit: OK, so half hour later they let him freeeeeeeeeee!
:)
Edit: OK, so half hour later they let him freeeeeeeeeee!
Friday, February 20, 2009
Radio Silence
FH's ship has met up with a task group out at sea and whatever they are doing has caused them to have to go silent for about 36 hours. No contact with outsiders. Boooooo. Emails are what keep us both going when he's away this long.
I guess this is what it was like for families before email became a day-to-day reality.
Ha, look at me. Twelve hours and I'm already comparing myself to folks from ten years ago.
Good thing he's home on Monday.
I guess this is what it was like for families before email became a day-to-day reality.
Ha, look at me. Twelve hours and I'm already comparing myself to folks from ten years ago.
Good thing he's home on Monday.
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Seriously?
Do you know that the Twinrix shot is not covered by Nova Scotia MSI?
I don't mean the actual prescription...which by the way costs $67 per shot (and I have to have three shots because we are leaving on our trip within six weeks of my first shot...expedited version).
I mean that doctors' offices actually charge $20 just to stick the needle in your arm.
Yup, you read that right. $20 for the doctor to open the box, wipe my arm with an alcohol swab, and stab me. Takes less than 30 seconds.
And I have to do it three times.
$67 x 3 + $20 x 3 = $261
Oh, and I'll have to get the booster in about 10 months.
Ridiculous.
I don't mean the actual prescription...which by the way costs $67 per shot (and I have to have three shots because we are leaving on our trip within six weeks of my first shot...expedited version).
I mean that doctors' offices actually charge $20 just to stick the needle in your arm.
Yup, you read that right. $20 for the doctor to open the box, wipe my arm with an alcohol swab, and stab me. Takes less than 30 seconds.
And I have to do it three times.
$67 x 3 + $20 x 3 = $261
Oh, and I'll have to get the booster in about 10 months.
Ridiculous.
Monday, February 16, 2009
New Computer
My poor laptop has been dying a slow death for quite some time now...since around September I think. It has been a great machine for the price I paid, but honestly considering I use it for work 5+ days per week, plus blogging, surfing, etc. I probably should have spent a little more at the time. However, I did tell myself it would be good for three years and I think next month I would hit that mark...so not too shabby after all.
I started looking around and asking a few friends what I should be looking for in a new computer a couple of months ago. Things change so much in the world of computers, all of the knowledge I used to have has become pretty obsolescent. To my surprise I had several people recommend ordering a Dell computer. Even my computer savvy programmer friends. So I looked at the website a few times...but I was still a little confused between quad-core, dual-core, blah blah blah....plus I was still trying to prolong the usage of my trusty laptop so I never got around to seriously planning anything.
But a few more months went by and my laptop just continued to get slower and can't seem to do more than one thing at a time...which generally isn't an issue for me, except it always seems to freeze and freak out when I'm doing something for my boss or using it during a conference call. It is apparently quite into bad timing. So a couple of weeks ago I decided that waiting another month was just silly and sucked it up and went on the hunt.
I actually found a machine at Costco that I liked. An HP...quad-core, bigass hard drive, lotsa RAM, big shiny monitor. I even got so far as to put in on a cart and head to the checkout. Then I remembered that Costco doesn't take credit cards, and I hadn't yet transferred money from my business expense account to my day-to-day checking account so I wasn't going to be able to debit it (seeeee Costco, you lost a sale because I couldn't just whip out my MasterCard and get it done). So I put the computer back and came home to do some banking transfers online, with the intention of going back. But you know what? It was snowing that day, and when I got home I just didn't feel like going out again, so I decided to check out Dell online again just in case....
And sure enough, I found a similar computer for about $300 less. Same size hard drive, I think a little less RAM but it's sooo much who cares, a bigger monitor (hellooooo 22"). This one is dual-core instead of quad-core, but I actually had a very knowledgeable friend tell me this would be better for me in a lower end machine...less processing time. Sure, sounds good to me. haha. So I ordered it. Who am I to look a $300 savings gift horse in the mouth?
This bad boy arrived last Wednesday, two days earlier than anticipated. I was pretty stoked, but do you know that I didn't even take it out of the boxes until Saturday and it wasn't until last night that I got around to setting it up. And I still haven't finished setting up the email or software (although it has Works and everything all set up...I'm still debating on whether I will put Office on it) or transferring all of my files, etc. There was a time that I found all of that stuff fun, but now I just want it done and ready to go!!
So far it's pretty cool though. Man, what a difference between that little laptop monitor and this 22" beauty. Maybe now my neck will be in the proper position more often and my arm/shoulder will quit bugging me so much. One can only hope!! And it's much faster and smoother moving, which is a dream! I'm even considering going for the super high-speed Internet access now that I have a machine that can perform.
Fun. :)
I started looking around and asking a few friends what I should be looking for in a new computer a couple of months ago. Things change so much in the world of computers, all of the knowledge I used to have has become pretty obsolescent. To my surprise I had several people recommend ordering a Dell computer. Even my computer savvy programmer friends. So I looked at the website a few times...but I was still a little confused between quad-core, dual-core, blah blah blah....plus I was still trying to prolong the usage of my trusty laptop so I never got around to seriously planning anything.
But a few more months went by and my laptop just continued to get slower and can't seem to do more than one thing at a time...which generally isn't an issue for me, except it always seems to freeze and freak out when I'm doing something for my boss or using it during a conference call. It is apparently quite into bad timing. So a couple of weeks ago I decided that waiting another month was just silly and sucked it up and went on the hunt.
I actually found a machine at Costco that I liked. An HP...quad-core, bigass hard drive, lotsa RAM, big shiny monitor. I even got so far as to put in on a cart and head to the checkout. Then I remembered that Costco doesn't take credit cards, and I hadn't yet transferred money from my business expense account to my day-to-day checking account so I wasn't going to be able to debit it (seeeee Costco, you lost a sale because I couldn't just whip out my MasterCard and get it done). So I put the computer back and came home to do some banking transfers online, with the intention of going back. But you know what? It was snowing that day, and when I got home I just didn't feel like going out again, so I decided to check out Dell online again just in case....
And sure enough, I found a similar computer for about $300 less. Same size hard drive, I think a little less RAM but it's sooo much who cares, a bigger monitor (hellooooo 22"). This one is dual-core instead of quad-core, but I actually had a very knowledgeable friend tell me this would be better for me in a lower end machine...less processing time. Sure, sounds good to me. haha. So I ordered it. Who am I to look a $300 savings gift horse in the mouth?
This bad boy arrived last Wednesday, two days earlier than anticipated. I was pretty stoked, but do you know that I didn't even take it out of the boxes until Saturday and it wasn't until last night that I got around to setting it up. And I still haven't finished setting up the email or software (although it has Works and everything all set up...I'm still debating on whether I will put Office on it) or transferring all of my files, etc. There was a time that I found all of that stuff fun, but now I just want it done and ready to go!!
So far it's pretty cool though. Man, what a difference between that little laptop monitor and this 22" beauty. Maybe now my neck will be in the proper position more often and my arm/shoulder will quit bugging me so much. One can only hope!! And it's much faster and smoother moving, which is a dream! I'm even considering going for the super high-speed Internet access now that I have a machine that can perform.
Fun. :)
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