Kirstein, Rosemary - The Outskirter's Secret

Spoilers for The Steerwsoman below.

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Rambling

Yay! I have a copy of Patricia McKillip's Od Magic waiting for me at home! Joy joy joy! Now I am trying to decide if I should read it immediately, or if I should wait until I finish the Steerswoman books before going in. Or if I should just let it sit on my shelf for a while until the day comes when I need to treat myself to something magical.

In other news, I am days behind on my FL. This probably means skip=600 or some other frightening number like that. yhlee, is there another version of the "Toto Dies" vid that you want me to look at?

However, I have also gone shopping an awful, awful lot. Alas, all the cute skirts that I saw earlier are either gone, not on sale, on sale but still too expensive, or unflattering. Woe. Er, not that I need even more cute skirts. But I have two new pairs of jeans! And they actually fit! Will wonders never cease? I debated over buying the second one, but then I realized I only have one really good pair of jeans right now, and last time I didn't buy a second pair, I kicked myself really hard later. Plus, they make me look tall. Or at least I think they do, so there.

In not as happy news, Fitz-rat is making weird lung noises again, so I think he is due for another vet trip and antibiotics. My poor little fuzzbutt (what? Their butts are fuzzy. As is the rest of them).

I also watched the Tony awards on TV and I really want to see Spamalot now when I go visit my sister during Thanksgiving! So looking forward to the trip! Well, except for the cold weather bit.

Speaking of weather, it is raining here again. In June. The weather is officially on crack. Oh well, at least it means I can continue to not water my plants, haha.

I think I'm done rambling now.

Computer question

I'm trying to decide if I should get a new computer or not. I think the mouse driver on my laptop is broken, because my mouse basically stops working every other minute, which is extraordinarily annoying. Also, since I never actually move my laptop, now that I'm out of college, it might make more sense for me to get a desktop. Plus, cheaper.

Since obviously my flist contains all the knowledge of the world, I shall beg for advice.

I am not getting a Mac. I like them, and they are gorgeous, but I am too lazy to re-figure out an operating system (yes, I know everyone says it's easy, but I used a Mac back in the bookstore and I still couldn't figure out how to do simple things that I know how to do in Windows).

I've never actually built a computer before. I suspect I would be willing to try, especially if it gets me all the functionality I want (horrors, I am using "functionality" in a non-ironic way. Businesspeak!).

Wishlist:

• Watch files from my PC on my TV (I suspect this is difficult and/or impractical though), because I am lazy and like my couch.


• Burn DVDs. Aka, I want a dual-drive DVD-RW and DVD-ROM or something.


• I want it to be wireless, because I am too lazy to buy a really long ethernet cable. If it's not, I guess this is compromisable.


• Built-in Firewire and 9-in-1 flash memory readers would be really nice


• I want enough memory or i/o or whatever it is so that I can run Photoshop, but in general I doubt speed is a problem


• Lots of hard drive space


• Really that's it. I think. Well, I figure people here probably use their computers in a way fairly similar to the way that I do, so.. yeah.

So... would it be more expensive to build a computer or to buy one? And which brands are better? I've had a laptop for 6 years now, and I am not versed in the world of desktops anymore ;). And how do you guys customize your computers? I am, alas, not much of a computer person, tech-wise, but I love my gadgets. Especially when I can make them do precisely what I want them to do.

Picture spam!

My rats were simply too cute sleeping in their cage.

Awwwww! They look like rat commas!

( Large rat photos )