10/4/2011

Ok, so I wasn’t as correct as I could have been when I said y'all were caught up with my life. I realized while reading last week’s sole rant that I hadn’t told y'all about my new phone or laptop. Obviously, since I mentioned signing up for i-Tunes, I now have an i-gotta-be-just-like-everyone-else-Phone now. Here’s that story. Sunday morning, that would be 9/25/2011 by the way, I went to lunch with mom then went to the AT&T store for a new phone. My Dingleberry pissed me off to the point that it died the night before you see. So I go in and show the dude the remains. We talk phones for a bit and I finally just say, “Fuck it,” to myself. I ask him to show me the i-Phones. I decide I don’t need 56 terabytes, or however much the “big” i-Phone has, and settled for the… I don’t know, 8 gig? Whatever. I bought it using Samantha’s upgrade since hers was the only one eligible at the time. Yes, I called John to confirm that she didn’t need to upgrade right away. Mine would have been eligible in a month so we’re cool. Besides, it is my plan after all. Not that I would play that card… probably. Ok yeah, I probably would have. Anyhoo, they try to load my contacts and stuff from the Dingleberry’s SIM card to no avail. I was screwed on that front. Psh, oh well. Oh, here’s why I decided to go ahead and give in to peer pressure on the i-Phone: Hyundai’s Blue Tooth system recommends the i-Phone as the most compatible. Psh, whatever. I went ahead, obviously. From there, I think, I went to Best Buy again to look at the notebook John had picked out for me. Nope, I still didn’t like the size. To be honest, I want my pr0n bigger than that screen would have allowed. By the way, tiny pr0n and a slow connection was what killed the Dingleberry. So there. I chatted with a sales dude and he showed me a display unit. “Sure,” I said, “let’s get that one.” He grabbed it and we went to the Nerd Herd counter so they could clean up the hard drive and load Windows and stuff. As he was ringing it up, he saw that they had new units just like the display and went to get me one of them instead. I'm not sure if I got the display price for the new unit but at that point I didn’t really give a shit. I went home and goofed off the rest of the evening. Monday I came to work with the dead laptop in hopes that it was just the monitor. I borrowed a 750 gig external hard drive from someone and came up to my desk. I hooked the bottom half of the old laptop to my desktop monitor and fired it up. Huzzah! Success! I managed to transfer all of my data from the old laptop to the hard drive so my pictures, rants, spreadsheets, and all that malarkey are safe. After work I went back to Best Buy to pick up my laptop. I decided to go ahead and buy myself an external hard drive thingy like the one I borrowed. I found an identical unit and thought, “I’ll just get this and replace the one I borrowed with it.” Then I saw that a full terabyte was only like ten dollars more. I bought the 1TB unit instead. Once they were through loading all the stuff onto my new ‘top, I took it home. It has been a while since I've used Tiny and Flaccid (Microsoft for those in the back) so it hasn’t pissed me off too bad yet. And, since it has been a while, relearning how to do everything required by the total redesign of Windows 7 hasn’t been the total ass-whip it could have been. So, now I think we can consider ourselves caught up. Moving on. John texted me last night with a proposition. He asked if I'd be willing to trade the hot rod A-14 from Lil' Wiggly for an RX-4 he has in his garage. I asked if he meant just the engine or the whole car. Turns out the California based owner of the RX-4, and a 510 wagon also here locally, was considering trading them for John's B-210 with that hot rod engine and a five speed. John would get the wagon and I'd get the RX-4. I told him I'd gopher that and he replied it was still way too “up in the air” to get our hopes up. We also discussed what we’d put in Lil' Wiggly if that engine went away. Of course it would be an L-series. So, I guess that’s just about all I've got for y'all today. Toodles.