Casa De Morrill

It’s been sitting next to my desk for a week. It’s not that I haven’t wanted to install it, it’s just I’ve had four projects to finish and I’ve had midterms looming. So, when I haven’t been at work (which is most of my time), I’ve really been at school or with classmates studying. After yesterday’s all day coding run, I decided to take a day away from anything but the absolute necessaries for school. I wrote the readme file for my program and turned everything in and that’s it.

Today, has been devoted to spending time with Sean and doing non-school stuff. That included waking up and going straight to Izzy’s Bagel Cafe. I’m really beginning to enjoy waking up on Sunday mornings and going out to breakfast/brunch somewhere. Give’s Sean and I time to talk and read a Sunday paper. While eating our bagels, we discussed shopping for a computer desk for me, as the one Amy had given me a while back was finally dying and I didn’t want it to fall apart on top of my good computer equipment.

We spent the rest of the day running various errands and shopping for a desk. I finally settled on one at Staples. The sales manager goes to the back to see if he has one in stock and we follow behind him. He told us “Well, I don’t think this is going to fit in your car.” It was two boxes that were about 7 feet long. Even with my seats folded down, there was no way those two boxes were fitting in my car. Jeff to the rescue! After a quick phone call to Jeff, he agreed to bring his truck out and put the desk in the bed of his truck. So, I get the desk back to the apartment and start taking it out of it’s box. Two of the boards are seriously cracked. After a quick call to the company that makes it, they agree to send new boards to the apartment in 3-5 business days. That’s fine. I can have my computer sit on the floor for a couple days. Not too big of a deal.

After the failed attempt to put my new desk together, I decided to put my new geek toy inside my computer. It’s a CD burner. I’ve had one, but it was only a 4x burner and for the past few months it had gotten really pokey and I’d given up using it as a burner. This one’s a 10x/4x. I got it hooked up, Windows had no problem recognizing it. I installed Nero 5 which actually came with the burner (it was one of the selling points for Sean and me). Then, I decided to put the burner to the test. I tossed a little under 800MB of mp3s into the directory and hit Burn. 7.5 minutes later, I had a burned CD that works perfectly. Damn. I love geek toys. Next purchase, a zip drive so that I can actually transport my programs between school and home (they’ve gotten too big to fit on a floppy now).