| saturday morning |
[Saturday, 21 June, 10:00 am] |
It's wet, this Saturday morning.
This week has been really quite emotionally challenging, but it's been a good one nonetheless. Yesterday was the wettest day since I moved down here -- fairly steady rain all day, not unexpected in Britain but irritating nevertheless. I got home just after 6, made some dinner and settled down for a quiet evening of watching a Russia documentary by one of the interchangeable Dimblebys on BBC iPlayer, and eventually wandered into bed round about 9. I had planned to trek up to the top of Chapel Carn Brea for 1am, the summer Solstice, but it was wet and fully misted, so I decided to get some sleep and chill out.
Unsurprisingly, I woke up at 7 this morning, had some tea, and pottered about reading my flist and Google Reader, which has become one of the few things in my Safari bookmark bar. (The others, for reference, are Gmail, Flist, LJump and LJoo, style=mine, the LJ console, Facebook, my Wikipedia search button, Twitter (which I never use), my bookmark folder of Radio 4 things that includes the Shipping Forecast, and my flickr page.) I've moved just about all the RSS feeds that used to live on my flist to Google Reader, and I just adore it. All I'm holding out on is Google Calendar and then I'll be thoroughly a Gwhore.
My plans for today are to move around the furniture in my studio, perhaps get the Mac Mini set up as a fileserver and/or pseudo-TV, and then dinner with my friends S and R. And, of course, if the weather clears up a little then there is likely to be sunbathing.
Oh! Thanks to ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) isilya and anatsuno for their input on document scanners. I'm likely going to recommend the Fujitsu Scansnap to my office, in the hope that we can remove some of the Death By Paper that surrounds us.
My next question, internet, is: let's say you had a budget to buy a Windows XP laptop, 15"-17" screen, good enough video to power a 22" monitor off as well, and you wanted it to be able to multitask like whoa (dozens of IE7 tabs with Google apps, an Access database, Excel, several Word documents, Outlook, Photoshop), what spec would you recommend? I'm kind of stuck, because I'm the computer guru for the office, and yet I'm a Mac nerd, and "buy a damn MacBook Pro" probably won't go down too well. Ideally, I'm looking for links to specs so I can print them out and take them to my boss. (I know, I know.)
Watch this space for Dreamwidth, because I am incredibly excited about this project.
Lastly, a bit of a picture: not mine, clearly, but it's pretty impressive nonetheless. This was taken in the heavy storms this March, obviously not by me.  |
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