Intermission
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This is probably really boring for you, but fyi there are really two things holding me back right now.
One is that the new expensive computer I bought is not behaving (a big FU to Sony). Sometimes it hangs and the task manager won’t even launch, and sometimes when it does even killing processes from the process tree doesn’t work. The second thing it likes to do to tick me off is to just turn itself off with no warning. Fwip, it’s gone. Anyway, I’m just hesitant to put anything else, like iTunes and all the other CD reviewing infrastructure, on this because I’m considering wiping it clean anyway.
The second thing keeping me from jumping back into the blogging full speed ahead is that My Baby has asked me to pick a CD (just one) that Our Baby can listen to in the womb so that it will be soothed by that CD after birth. An initial pass through my collection resulted in about 80 CDs that made the “possible” cut, so all of my listening time is going toward paring that stack down. I should have one picked out by June (that’s a joke…the kid’s due in March).
Anyway, I really should recommend eBits PC Laptop here (I used the Capitol Hill location but the same guy runs the U District location). They cleaned out the fan in my old laptop real nice, and it lasted for a few weeks before dying again, at which point they replaced the fan with a new one, charging me only for the part. And they were fast about it, too, at least the second time around. We got off to a bit of a rough start on the customer service responsiveness front, but once they realized I was a high-touch customer they became responsive. I would definitely go there again.
Oh, and if there’s a third thing keeping me from blogging it’s the complete lack of never-snow. It’s been very warm here. Last weekend it was considerably warmer here than it was in Miami. You can read about it in full-on breathless style here.
Anyway, I’ve still got lots of CDs to review, so I will be back. Thanks for hanging in there.
January 20th, 2010 at 4:54 pm
Our kid really grooved on hammered dulcimer and Irish pipes at a very young age. We never played them for him in utero. My point” You just never know what the little critters are going to really like!
January 20th, 2010 at 5:07 pm
Oh, I know, but I’m all about exposure.
February 4th, 2010 at 9:34 pm
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