And yes I realize how cheesy the beginning is.
So my friend Manny at Fry's had a free mainboard. An ECS, but once again, it's free.
So I'm excited to start the research portion of assembling a new computer, something I've been dying to start again for years.
But I have $0.00 to spend on a computer. So I'll either have to save all my pennies and hope to afford one piece every great while, or get more free/discounted stuff. So now I start my search.
Monday, September 08, 2008
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
I'm leaving on a Jetplane...
So... in 1:15 in the morning... I leave for the airport at 2:15 to arrive at the pre-determined 3:20 meeting time in front of the US Airways desk in PDX.
I finally got my apartment situation worked out, made the holding deposit today, I go in to work out the lease agreement before or on the 1st of June. So I have to try to cover rent for 3 months without Andy... that's gonna be spendy.
So back to the trip, now that my life when I return is more or less in order, I am leaving in an hour, I am mostly packed, though worried that my bag may way over the 50 lbs. that US Airways allows (and it charges $50 if you are overweight), what an unforgiving airway, or you could pay $25 and have two checked bags... once again... what an unforgiving airline.
But other than that worry I'm okay, I'm taking my laptop, Flip, video Nano (with about 3 hours of Yogi Bear cartoons I just bought off of iTunes for $10USD) [I'm going to start referring to things in USD from this point in the blog until I return from my trip as a way of differentiating between what things costs there. According to Yahoo! Finance, the Euro to Dollar is 1.5554 everything costs 1.5x what it does in the states. Yippee! With rent when I return! Crap...
Back to Europe again! I'm flying to Amsterdam... I'm leaving at 5 a.m. this morning and I get there at 8 a.m. WEDNESDAY MORNING! Just for those of you keeping track... that's 25 Hours of loss (not really because of time zones, but I'm not caring about time zones, this is my rant, I can have it be as miserable sounding as I want)... 25 Hours of sitting in a plane with babies screaming, but I have Yogi bear with me, and about 10 hours of Podcasts about European Travel, specifically Amsterdam and Parisian travel. Am I going to be bored? Doubtful, I like being able to watch old Yogi Bear cartoons and sleep and drink soda all day :)
ALAS! I doubt they'll let me just waltz into Northwestern France and buy an old sword and take it with me home... and that's a sad day. Someday I'll own a house in France and then I'll horde antiquities.... Swords and armor and I'll get into some sticky situations in town where someone got almost run through and I have to ride my horse/mule/pony/donkey back to my chateau/house/hut/shack and quickly tear out of my rusty armor before the police show up to question me...
But I want to rent a car, a Citroen or something that we don't have in the states, just for fun.
I'm also considering going to the Heineken factory in Amsterdam, Sarah thought it might be fun as well.
We'll see, I have my flip so I'll make an attempt to upload movies sometime this week if I get brave enough to take my laptop out into the sea of European pickpockets to find one of 2, YES I SAID 2!, internet cafes in the entirety of Amsterdam. What kind of country has only 2 internet cafes? Honestly... they would have an aneurysm is they saw the media-drowned existence I lead at home in the United States of America. Wi-Fi on every corner, 45 year old men playing World of Warcraft, talk about a culture shock.
But until then, Au Revoir!
I have a French Phrase book that is hilarious, has pickup lines and everything, we'll see how that goes. Haha.
Later Hombres.
I finally got my apartment situation worked out, made the holding deposit today, I go in to work out the lease agreement before or on the 1st of June. So I have to try to cover rent for 3 months without Andy... that's gonna be spendy.
So back to the trip, now that my life when I return is more or less in order, I am leaving in an hour, I am mostly packed, though worried that my bag may way over the 50 lbs. that US Airways allows (and it charges $50 if you are overweight), what an unforgiving airway, or you could pay $25 and have two checked bags... once again... what an unforgiving airline.
But other than that worry I'm okay, I'm taking my laptop, Flip, video Nano (with about 3 hours of Yogi Bear cartoons I just bought off of iTunes for $10USD) [I'm going to start referring to things in USD from this point in the blog until I return from my trip as a way of differentiating between what things costs there. According to Yahoo! Finance, the Euro to Dollar is 1.5554 everything costs 1.5x what it does in the states. Yippee! With rent when I return! Crap...
Back to Europe again! I'm flying to Amsterdam... I'm leaving at 5 a.m. this morning and I get there at 8 a.m. WEDNESDAY MORNING! Just for those of you keeping track... that's 25 Hours of loss (not really because of time zones, but I'm not caring about time zones, this is my rant, I can have it be as miserable sounding as I want)... 25 Hours of sitting in a plane with babies screaming, but I have Yogi bear with me, and about 10 hours of Podcasts about European Travel, specifically Amsterdam and Parisian travel. Am I going to be bored? Doubtful, I like being able to watch old Yogi Bear cartoons and sleep and drink soda all day :)
ALAS! I doubt they'll let me just waltz into Northwestern France and buy an old sword and take it with me home... and that's a sad day. Someday I'll own a house in France and then I'll horde antiquities.... Swords and armor and I'll get into some sticky situations in town where someone got almost run through and I have to ride my horse/mule/pony/donkey back to my chateau/house/hut/shack and quickly tear out of my rusty armor before the police show up to question me...
But I want to rent a car, a Citroen or something that we don't have in the states, just for fun.
I'm also considering going to the Heineken factory in Amsterdam, Sarah thought it might be fun as well.
We'll see, I have my flip so I'll make an attempt to upload movies sometime this week if I get brave enough to take my laptop out into the sea of European pickpockets to find one of 2, YES I SAID 2!, internet cafes in the entirety of Amsterdam. What kind of country has only 2 internet cafes? Honestly... they would have an aneurysm is they saw the media-drowned existence I lead at home in the United States of America. Wi-Fi on every corner, 45 year old men playing World of Warcraft, talk about a culture shock.
But until then, Au Revoir!
I have a French Phrase book that is hilarious, has pickup lines and everything, we'll see how that goes. Haha.
Later Hombres.
Monday, January 14, 2008
Halfway into January 2008
My researching has slowed to a halt unfortunately, due to a mix of Forza 2, Halo 3, Assassin's Creed, my Business classes on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and random stuff with Sarah.
I have started looking for a job though, applied at a place earlier today. I just want 20-30 hours a week, enough to make some money for playing when I'm not working.
I have pretty good classes this semester, only 3 of them during the day from 10:35 to 2:35 every Tuesday and Thursday, a 4 hour block! And then every other Wednesday I have a Juniors Abroad class which looks pretty simple.
So that's what I'm doing, I went to Cupcake Jones in Portland with Sarah last Saturday, it was pretty amazing, it's a great place, good date daytime activity, if your date is into good cupcakes.
And then we went to Powell's City of Books, where I bought "Life in a Medieval Castle" and "Life in a Medieval City" both by Joseph and Frances Gies, I'll tell you how they are if I ever get a chance to read them.
I have started looking for a job though, applied at a place earlier today. I just want 20-30 hours a week, enough to make some money for playing when I'm not working.
I have pretty good classes this semester, only 3 of them during the day from 10:35 to 2:35 every Tuesday and Thursday, a 4 hour block! And then every other Wednesday I have a Juniors Abroad class which looks pretty simple.
So that's what I'm doing, I went to Cupcake Jones in Portland with Sarah last Saturday, it was pretty amazing, it's a great place, good date daytime activity, if your date is into good cupcakes.
And then we went to Powell's City of Books, where I bought "Life in a Medieval Castle" and "Life in a Medieval City" both by Joseph and Frances Gies, I'll tell you how they are if I ever get a chance to read them.
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