some showers overnight, warm and sticky morning, going to rain this afternoon, which like Buppies is fine with me.
Need a little break from the heat.
headed to Kubota dealer, instead of getting a bill from them for a new Echo hedge trimmer/brush cutter, I got a refund check. Hmmmm, new girl in accounting. Think I'd better go have a chat with them.
Over the weekend my Samsung Chromebook stalled due to lack of memory for the last time. Granted I'm overusing this little thing, video seems to defeat it after awhile. So....did my research, and ordered an Acer Aspire, a convertible model that folds, good for watching movies in the rv, 15.6 inches, 256gb SS memory, I7, 12gb ram.
If it comes today I'll have a good project setting it up in rainy weather.
Over the last 20+ years buying laptops, from business Toshibas to this little Chromebook, I have found the price of a good laptop was for decades over $2K. Now it's under $800. Amazing how pricing has dropped. And what really attracted me to this model, other than great reviews, is that Acer doesn't pack it with bloatware that takes forever to get rid of.
I owned a Radio Shack franchise in my very small home town for five years. I turned a "where's that thermistor?" electronic geek palace into an adult toy store. Sony and Panasonic electronics. A variety of audio and video equipment that Radio Shack would never carry. But i stocked every single one of those "parts and pieces" on those big swinging display racks that were always in the back of the older Radio Shacks. I wasn't sure what a triac did but I had one...
And this was the time PC's were coming in, and here I am selling Tandy 100's. (since we are on memory lane this morning...) You could throw a 100 off the roof and it would keep working, those early pc's were tanks. And heavy... I quickly learned that while I had to offer them, that Tandy was never going to be a good long term choice for computer. So I brought in Acer, in the mid 80's, and they were flawless computers. Never ever had a unit returned for service or problem. Of course times were simpler then, no malwares and live streaming was just a vision. So when I went looking for a conventional laptop, that wasn't too heavy (I've had the 9 pound 15 inchers before) and it was an Acer, I had a good feeling.
Now a new computer is no where as cool as a new flail mower, but maybe now my Youtube videos will no longer lock up. I don't watch any tv at all so the internet is important to me.
got on the scale this morning and smiled Down to 211, haven't seen that number in awhile. All that wood chipping and outside work in the heat just drained a few pounds off me. I've been up to 260, and have wanted to get to 200. When I was 5'11" my bmi was off but not terrible. Now that arthritis and spinal issues have dropped me to 5'9", my bmi numbers are worse and I get "the look". Of course if I got down to 180 or wherever they expect me to be, I'm likely to be in the morgue. 200 would be just fine.
Frankly if I followed a plant based diet like Don, I bet the pounds would melt off. But I sure liked my steak last night...
but new work week upon us.