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June 19th, 2004
Got all the bills paid this morning.Nice not to have that hanging over me! Then we went to the first showing of the Harry Potter movie. I enjoyed it and ( have a minor comment or two that might be a spoiler to someone somewhere )
Then we went and bought one of those free-standing air conditioners. I'm not enjoying it yet; have to let it sit upright for a couple hours before use, and anyway I'm debating heading out again - at the very least to do the grocery shopping. But we have it! Scott and I make a good team, but he really saved this one. I was the one who got impatient enough to go get it, pretty much picked the unit out (so if it sucks, that's mine, I'm afraid), all that. But when we got it home and inside, I'm also the one who collapsed in fits because parts were missing. Scott's the one who found them hidden in the top of a piece of styrofoam that had seemed attached to the box to me. I'm the one who tried to follow the instructions and ended up so frustrated I had to stop or cry when I couldn't get the bits to go together; Scott's the one who got it all hooked up. Basically, I was the impetus for the purchase, and he's the one who made it work. Well, we hope it works. We'll find out later. It's not rated for as much space as we'll use it on; it is rated enough to do any one space in our house, but I'm pretty sure it can somewhat handle the whole upstairs with help from the tornado fan. We'll see.
I was a real bear to deal with, partly, as I realized after, because it was by the time we'd (he'd) done that, 2 pm and all I'd had all day was a muffin bar and my vitamins! Ack. Should have eaten lunch right after the movie, but didn't. Oopsy. Have since remedied that.
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solcita I know there's a Lush store coming to Portland. I've been listening to friends rave about them and really wanting to join in and being curious - but I am not good with some scented things and am wary of ordering without more clue on what it would be like than from their website. Having a local store will take care of that. Of course, it will also likely be miserable for me - the odds that everything they sell is "tolerable" to me is low - but I only need to go in a time or two. I have no aversion to ordering online once I know what I'm getting into, and they're not real conveniently located for me, though handy enough for that anyway.
Then we went and bought one of those free-standing air conditioners. I'm not enjoying it yet; have to let it sit upright for a couple hours before use, and anyway I'm debating heading out again - at the very least to do the grocery shopping. But we have it! Scott and I make a good team, but he really saved this one. I was the one who got impatient enough to go get it, pretty much picked the unit out (so if it sucks, that's mine, I'm afraid), all that. But when we got it home and inside, I'm also the one who collapsed in fits because parts were missing. Scott's the one who found them hidden in the top of a piece of styrofoam that had seemed attached to the box to me. I'm the one who tried to follow the instructions and ended up so frustrated I had to stop or cry when I couldn't get the bits to go together; Scott's the one who got it all hooked up. Basically, I was the impetus for the purchase, and he's the one who made it work. Well, we hope it works. We'll find out later. It's not rated for as much space as we'll use it on; it is rated enough to do any one space in our house, but I'm pretty sure it can somewhat handle the whole upstairs with help from the tornado fan. We'll see.
I was a real bear to deal with, partly, as I realized after, because it was by the time we'd (he'd) done that, 2 pm and all I'd had all day was a muffin bar and my vitamins! Ack. Should have eaten lunch right after the movie, but didn't. Oopsy. Have since remedied that.
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solcita I know there's a Lush store coming to Portland. I've been listening to friends rave about them and really wanting to join in and being curious - but I am not good with some scented things and am wary of ordering without more clue on what it would be like than from their website. Having a local store will take care of that. Of course, it will also likely be miserable for me - the odds that everything they sell is "tolerable" to me is low - but I only need to go in a time or two. I have no aversion to ordering online once I know what I'm getting into, and they're not real conveniently located for me, though handy enough for that anyway.
The AC is simply not reaching the computer room from the bedroom very swiftly. I was afraid of this - but I was hoping otherwise. There is the length of the hall, and even with the tornado fan blowing away from the stairs, there's the tendency of cold air to drop. I'm sure it will eventually cool this room at least somewhat, but on a weekday, by the time it could cool this room it would be time for bed. The unit itself is portable; the bits that go in the window don't require the screens out; and so perhaps we could move it back and forth.
Setting it up in the computer room and blowing to the bedroom would be the correct order of cooling, of course. But it would send most of it down the stairs anyway.
I was hoping, I really truly was. We can buy another unit, or we can trundle this one back and forth. The second option sounds better to me - often, of an evening, the bedroom's cool enough by bedtime but the computer room is still barely-tolerable because of the computers, and of course earlier in the evening it's awful. So perhaps we could just use it in the computer room, though we'd have to rearrange a bit to make that workable. It did cool the bedroom down tolerably when it was turned on, when I had the doors closed, so used that way it would likely do nicely. I was hoping for a more general-purpose solution, though. Oh, well, realistically I knew there was a chance it wouldn't be one.
And yes, I draw conclusions quickly, but it's been a while and still it's barely-tolerable here. Today was quite bad - I showed 96 around 2:30 - so it's a worst-case scenario, but it's illustrating well that a dent is barely being made. I think I'll try switching it up to the computer room, which I suppose means I'd first better pick up the things between our chairs and the window. Or Scott's, because really, between my chair and the window is the bookcase, and I'd rather not move that. :P
It works. But I don't think it will if Scott wants to use his computer. His seat and mine are both too close to the window, and the AC needs access as well. Maybe, if I moved the bookcase, I could leave a path between our chairs, but I think we'd have to keep the floor cleaner and even so both seats would have to move in when we used it. Fooey. I want easy answers, blast it. :P I could move my desk away from the window, but I adore my window, plus that's a lot of furniture moving, and I'm on the wrong side from where it opens. But I'm pretty sure Scott likes the window as much as I do, and his desk - which used to be mine and is a big old thing, which I thought was grand when I was younger and now I think is mostly a pain to move about - is nothing I want to shuffle even if he wanted to shuffle. Bother, bother. At least for the moment, though, the thing is starting the process of making the computer room liveable. I'll take the moment, and worry about the rest later. There was a thinner model Scott was looking at. Weaker, and more expensive; I don't really want to get it. But it might jam into the spot better than this one. I don't think it would be enough without moving the bookcase, but perhaps with....
Feh. Or we can make do with this one 'til we can properly explore central air. The house has the vents for it, as part of the heating system; even the thermostat has settings. We'd just need the actual units set up and all. Not this year, I think, but maybe soon. I do rather like being comfortable.
Setting it up in the computer room and blowing to the bedroom would be the correct order of cooling, of course. But it would send most of it down the stairs anyway.
I was hoping, I really truly was. We can buy another unit, or we can trundle this one back and forth. The second option sounds better to me - often, of an evening, the bedroom's cool enough by bedtime but the computer room is still barely-tolerable because of the computers, and of course earlier in the evening it's awful. So perhaps we could just use it in the computer room, though we'd have to rearrange a bit to make that workable. It did cool the bedroom down tolerably when it was turned on, when I had the doors closed, so used that way it would likely do nicely. I was hoping for a more general-purpose solution, though. Oh, well, realistically I knew there was a chance it wouldn't be one.
And yes, I draw conclusions quickly, but it's been a while and still it's barely-tolerable here. Today was quite bad - I showed 96 around 2:30 - so it's a worst-case scenario, but it's illustrating well that a dent is barely being made. I think I'll try switching it up to the computer room, which I suppose means I'd first better pick up the things between our chairs and the window. Or Scott's, because really, between my chair and the window is the bookcase, and I'd rather not move that. :P
It works. But I don't think it will if Scott wants to use his computer. His seat and mine are both too close to the window, and the AC needs access as well. Maybe, if I moved the bookcase, I could leave a path between our chairs, but I think we'd have to keep the floor cleaner and even so both seats would have to move in when we used it. Fooey. I want easy answers, blast it. :P I could move my desk away from the window, but I adore my window, plus that's a lot of furniture moving, and I'm on the wrong side from where it opens. But I'm pretty sure Scott likes the window as much as I do, and his desk - which used to be mine and is a big old thing, which I thought was grand when I was younger and now I think is mostly a pain to move about - is nothing I want to shuffle even if he wanted to shuffle. Bother, bother. At least for the moment, though, the thing is starting the process of making the computer room liveable. I'll take the moment, and worry about the rest later. There was a thinner model Scott was looking at. Weaker, and more expensive; I don't really want to get it. But it might jam into the spot better than this one. I don't think it would be enough without moving the bookcase, but perhaps with....
Feh. Or we can make do with this one 'til we can properly explore central air. The house has the vents for it, as part of the heating system; even the thermostat has settings. We'd just need the actual units set up and all. Not this year, I think, but maybe soon. I do rather like being comfortable.
I've played GURPS a long time. It was the first RPG I played, not counting a brief bout of D&D when I was young and - honestly - did not understand it. I have a good chunk of the GURPS line, though far from all of it.
And I say now, GURPS 4th Edition will have to wow me immensely to get me to bother. I understand games grow and new editions are needed, but GURPS 3rd is nice and complete, easy when you need it, harder when you need it, grittily realistic...and I have all these books that all, you know, work together.
The core rules of Fourth Edition alone are $80. This is not enchanting me, since it was $25 to get the key rules of third. And large swaths of the books I own become, understandably, obsolete in Fourth Edition.
I haven't played face-to-face games in a while, nor have I therefore played GURPS in a while - longer than the face-to-face games since few people were interested in it in college. So there's really no point in my investing in a new edition and updating everything, to get all the changes to a system I liked perfectly well already and don't play any more.
It's kind of a sad realization, though. This is the system I learned on, the one I adored and advocated for many years. I still think it rocks. I'd play it again in a heartbeat if the right chance came up. But I won't shell out that kind of money to get the latest edition of a game I'm not playing, nor do I really feel like I need a newer-shinier-better.
It's moving on, and I'm...well, I suppose I'm moving on as I pick up new systems, but not to its newest iteration.
And I say now, GURPS 4th Edition will have to wow me immensely to get me to bother. I understand games grow and new editions are needed, but GURPS 3rd is nice and complete, easy when you need it, harder when you need it, grittily realistic...and I have all these books that all, you know, work together.
The core rules of Fourth Edition alone are $80. This is not enchanting me, since it was $25 to get the key rules of third. And large swaths of the books I own become, understandably, obsolete in Fourth Edition.
I haven't played face-to-face games in a while, nor have I therefore played GURPS in a while - longer than the face-to-face games since few people were interested in it in college. So there's really no point in my investing in a new edition and updating everything, to get all the changes to a system I liked perfectly well already and don't play any more.
It's kind of a sad realization, though. This is the system I learned on, the one I adored and advocated for many years. I still think it rocks. I'd play it again in a heartbeat if the right chance came up. But I won't shell out that kind of money to get the latest edition of a game I'm not playing, nor do I really feel like I need a newer-shinier-better.
It's moving on, and I'm...well, I suppose I'm moving on as I pick up new systems, but not to its newest iteration.
