I'm still a day behind...
Feb. 17th, 2002 12:57 am...but it's been that kind of week.
Based on my having roused Lee from sleep the past couple of days around 10 am with my phone calls, I drove up to her neck of the woods and called her from the Borders bookstore next to her apartment, leaving a message when the machine picked up.
I moseyed around the store, seizing a copy of a book from O'Reilly on community wireless networks, and calling Lee yet again, only to again be "answered" by her machine. I left another message.
I sat down to drink a mocha and called a third time. Same business.
Fifteen minutes later, I left a fourth message. By this time, I figured that she and Dwayne had gone somewhere and that I was calling an empty apartment.
I drove over to UBM Computers, just down the road, and browsed a bit. While they may have good prices on cheap hardware, some of their other prices seem pretty high. I spied copies of Microsoft's Small Business package for Office (Windows 95 edition) on sale for $50, which is a pretty gutsy price considering Windows 95 is officially a "dead" piece of software. In any event, they didn't have any printer cartridge refill ink in stock. Neither did the Auchan market down the road, where I didn't stay very long (just long enough to not find what I was looking for).
I eventually got home, cooked some food, ate, and went to sleep, arising at the usual time to get ready for another (and, for a while, last) exciting day at the MSR. On the drive in to work, I spoke with Lee, who had been sleeping soundly when I called and who had called earlier, while I was asleep, leaving a message apologizing for not answering the phone this morning.
We made tentative plans for me to repeat my pilgrimage up to her corner of the world once my shift is complete, at which point we'd figure out how to spend the day. I can afford to push my bedtime to a later hour, since my next gig starts at noon on Monday.
However, there are a couple of things that need attending to between now and the end of my shift. I better go do them...
Cheers...
Based on my having roused Lee from sleep the past couple of days around 10 am with my phone calls, I drove up to her neck of the woods and called her from the Borders bookstore next to her apartment, leaving a message when the machine picked up.
I moseyed around the store, seizing a copy of a book from O'Reilly on community wireless networks, and calling Lee yet again, only to again be "answered" by her machine. I left another message.
I sat down to drink a mocha and called a third time. Same business.
Fifteen minutes later, I left a fourth message. By this time, I figured that she and Dwayne had gone somewhere and that I was calling an empty apartment.
I drove over to UBM Computers, just down the road, and browsed a bit. While they may have good prices on cheap hardware, some of their other prices seem pretty high. I spied copies of Microsoft's Small Business package for Office (Windows 95 edition) on sale for $50, which is a pretty gutsy price considering Windows 95 is officially a "dead" piece of software. In any event, they didn't have any printer cartridge refill ink in stock. Neither did the Auchan market down the road, where I didn't stay very long (just long enough to not find what I was looking for).
I eventually got home, cooked some food, ate, and went to sleep, arising at the usual time to get ready for another (and, for a while, last) exciting day at the MSR. On the drive in to work, I spoke with Lee, who had been sleeping soundly when I called and who had called earlier, while I was asleep, leaving a message apologizing for not answering the phone this morning.
We made tentative plans for me to repeat my pilgrimage up to her corner of the world once my shift is complete, at which point we'd figure out how to spend the day. I can afford to push my bedtime to a later hour, since my next gig starts at noon on Monday.
However, there are a couple of things that need attending to between now and the end of my shift. I better go do them...
Cheers...