Itchy Feet

It's been a couple of days and I haven't posted, so here I am again.

Today's Friday, the last day of my 'holiday' from work. Wah. *pouts* Still, got a lot done writing-wise, even if not much else. Which reminds me, must do the laundry today so I have work clothes next week. And underwear. Underwear is important.

Tuesday was music therapy day. First a lesson with Johnny re the guitar - first time in about two months, actually, given various things - and then the band. I have a new song to learn (I've graduated to U2, hah!) and need to seriously start practicing again now Tara's back in tune. She got stubborn and refused my tweakings.

Oh, found out about my wages. $16 an hour for the first couple of weeks until they see how I handle the work and then an increase. O.O Double what the bakery was paying and about $3 an hour more than the last place. So I should be paying off the computer sooner than expected.

Speaking of the new computer... I'm in love. *grins* Seriously, it's so fast and efficient and I can use the internet from anywhere in the house since there's wireless service and I can save much more music than before and EEE! Worth every penny. The only downside is she overheats like a bastard and sometimes refuses to turn on because of it. I'm learning to a) let it cool down when it needs to and b) put myself in front of a fan or air conditioner on the hot days.

And speaking of the weather... bleah. Humidity. I hate humidity. Heat I can handle - I am Australian after all - but I grew up in Victoria, land of dry heat and sorching sun. Not this whole sticky feeling. Ugh. Must remember to drink water more this summer if it's going to be like this.

The exercises I have to do with this ear thing? Gah. Talk about vertigo inducing. After the first set I had to sit quietly for a bit and let the world stop rotating.

[Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com] made fruit salad the other day. A lot of fruit salad. Which I've been devouring, since yum, fruit salad and the fruit here is really good. Strawberries that have actual flavour even when they're the giant sized ones, what a concept! So yeah, fruit salad for breakfast again for me.

And now I go shower and eat aforementioned fruit salad. This has been a random post brought to you by your friendly neighbourhood spamming Rossi. Expect a meme at some point, it's that kind of day. ;)

Edit: Still doing that damn thing where it doesn't recognise page breaks. *grrs* Just this account too, so it's not the computer. And after I changed my style and everything too...

So, I've spent a good chunk of today setting up stuff on the new computer, transferring things over and gradually getting used to stuff. I ended up using my iPod as a mini-drive to move the music files over, and everything else I used my .Mac account which I got as part of the system. That, btw, lets me set up a webpage without the pesky domain finding issues and learning html and all the rest. *grins* So I've got somewhere apart from LJ to keep pictures and stuff.

But yeah, been busy. Of course, today is the day I'm supposed to be social, since I've had more people telling me not to spend all day on the computer since I moved here. Murphy, you suck. *grins*

There's a lot of stuff I still need to go through on this thing, many many shiny new applications and the rest, plus I still need to upload Photoshop and Microsoft Office (for Macs) and get rid of one or two things I'll never use, like the test version of Office. ;) But we're up and running, and I have iChat operating relatively smoothly and for the first time I don't have a million cables trailing everywhere - wireless for me now, baby!

Oh, and for the geeks who asked. Namely [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com]. The specs:

Hardware Overview:

Machine Name: MacBook
Machine Model: MacBook1,1
CPU Type: Intel Core Duo
Number Of Cores: 2
CPU Speed: 2 GHz
L2 Cache (shared): 2 MB
Memory: 512 MB
Bus Speed: 667 MHz
Boot ROM Version: MB11.005F.B00
Serial Number: 4H6192VBU9C
SMC Version: 1.4f8


Screen's the 13.3 inch widescreen and man is it brighter than the old one.

Speaking of Brittney, she's going to a good home - Mindy needs a computer and since I wasn't going to be making any money on a tradein of a five year old iBook, I'm going to pass her along. So yeah, not entirely neglected.

And now to dump music onto my iPod in some sort of order. Maybe that I'll do that at the pub with [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com], now I have a battery that lasts more than half an hour. ;)

Did I mention I have five programs open and nary a pause? *yays*