Sink full of dishes and a cold draft on my feet.
Trip Start
Nov 30, 2007
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Trip End
Jan 17, 2008
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
I'm writing this in my living room, and I just noticed now that the air conditoner isn't taped over, for instance. I've never used mine - I can't even figure out how to set it to "cold", actually, but every winter, it's an open hole to the outside, and if I don't want to live through the joys of frozen pipes again, I need to tape a garbage bag over it - which is incredibly decorative.
As a nerd/nomad hybrid (nerdmad?), I need my tech toys working, which means pulling movies for the plane, and loading my MP3 player, and putting maps on my GPS
*sigh*
. Which is the worst part, since Garmin's software is horrible - at least the serial-port version that I have is. (Seriously, serial ports? I needed to buy a serial-to-USB converter to hook it up to an actual modern computer. At least the software didn't come on 5 1/4" floppies.) The GPS software is a fussy beast of a thing, crashing if there's anything else running - I have to reboot my computer and set the priority to "high" to download a map, and even then it crashes around 80% of the time, which is frustrating because I'm sending the map at 9600 baud - again, with 1986 technology - so it takes a couple of hours.So anyways, I'm mostly just trying the blog software out, while ranting about trip prep and putting off the things I should be doing, like washing my bathroom floor.
Maybe I should go do that now.
