Frozen Northwest

[trystinn]

Fortunately the Winter Freeze we've been having has finally broken and our normal Winter temps have returned. Nights in the forties is doable for all our critters, even the hens were thinking they'd rough it out in their old coop. I found the two gals tucked away in there for the night, but since I hadn't an opportunity to clean it out this weekend I overruled them and tucked them away in the shed coop with the BCMs.

All this is excellent timing because I've been pulling down additional shifts at the bookstore due to the holiday rush. I'm very concerned because the inventory is lower than I can ever remember, so much fewer options for customers to choose from. We're ordering at a good clip, but at the end of the day, you cannot count on special orders for your entire business which seems to be the business model at work. If there is one. *sigh*

I'm hoping to earn enough to buy myself a Notebook, as we'll be buying a home pc with our tax refund in the next few months. Having to borrow old laptops from friends and hubby is literally stressing the crap out of me. I have nightmares about my external backup drive dying, which is why I'm not touching it until I have another machine. Which means I really need to do research. *sigh*

Comments

[erynn999.livejournal.com]

Netbooks only cost around $300-ish for a good one.

[tryst-inn.livejournal.com]

Yep, I went looking this weekend at the NEX and found a few that would do me quite well - Windows 7, Office, WiFi, etc. My concern is the smaller keyboards - I have very large hands and they cramp and ache on smaller keyboards, who needs that on top of everything else?

It's the home computer I'm worried about. Josh wants one of those touch screens/HDTV all in the monitor types and I just don't feel comfortable with my knowledge of them.

[erynn999.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I can see how big hands would present potential problems with a netbook. I'm annoyed that I pretty much have to do one-fingered typing on my iPhone. That's the one big advantage of chicklet keyboard phones over iPhones. I could at least use two thumbs for those.

[unique-thesame.livejournal.com]

I'm glad your temps have gone back to normal - now if only ours would! We've still got plenty of ice on the roads and snow is still coming down off and on - along with some freezing rain in between snowfalls. It's not as bad as yesterday, but it's still plenty cold.

[tryst-inn.livejournal.com]

I've been watching the temps up your way as someone in Bellingham wanted me to deliver ducks to her and I was thinking road trip.

Yikes, hon. YIKES! Also, if you haven't already - Synapsepi has bearded dragons and I thought you two might have stuff to discuss, seeings as she's over in Navy Housing north of Sea Plane Base. ;)

[unique-thesame.livejournal.com]

I'll have to get in touch with her :) Thank you for the suggestion!
If you can put off your road trip for a little while you might want to. Most of the heavily traveled roads are pretty good in most places, but there's still some nasty spots and a lot of real idiot drivers on the roads right now. Between having to drive the van and my back being in pretty bad shape right now, I'm choosing to stay off the roads until they're a bit more clear. And if you do come to Bellingham, can I expect to see you in Blaine? We're only another 20 miles from the north side of B'ham.