Six more days, Six more days. Our mantra that has been going through our heads everyday. Tuesday will be our last day in Los Angeles, at least until we come back to visit everyone (The Fam, Justin, Marla). LA is a fun place to visit but I won’t ever be living here again if I can help it. I shouldn’t really say that cause ya never know when a fantastic job could come along, but if I had my choice I would stay out of Los Angeles.
Kelly and I just couldn’t wait until we got to Virginia (or for the insurance money) to pick up a new laptop, so last night we shot down to the Apple store and picked up a new 12inch Powerbook w/SuperDrive for Kelly. She also scored a bright Pink Timbuk2 laptop bag. I think I may wait until we get to DC to pick up my new laptop, but ya never know, I could get jealous of Kelly using her new one and have to get one of my own.
One thing I’m slightly concerned about is with the insurance itself. I spole with our representative this morning and she mentioned something about the “replacement” cost for laptops, or in other words what she can purchase a similar laptop for. Now I’m hoping that this doesn’t mean purcahsing second-hand laptops or buying off of Ebay or something along those lines. Apple keeps a tight hold over the prices of their equipment so hopefully that will benefit us in the getting a good replacement price for at least two of our laptops. Now as far and my Windoze laptop I’m sure I will only get about 300 dollars or so for it, since PeeCees don’t hold their value at all.
We finally have the move finalized, so now we must finish packing and get everything ready for Monday when the movers should arrive to pack everything into the truck. The good thing is now that the movers have come down in price I won’t even see a bill for the move, everything will go right to my company and they will be picking up the tab…. how great is that?
One of the guys in the shop here has just recently moved from the D.C. area to LA and he handed me 100 dollars in Metro fare that I can transfer to my SmartTrip card, that should last me at least a month or so. Plus I will have to look into getting my company to reimburse so money for using public transportation.
Matt’s Birthday was yesterday and once again Kelly and I want to wish him a happy birthday (the gifts are in the mail). Hopefully I will get to spend an evening with Matt and Julie on the 27th as I’m on my way to D.C from the Springs.
I was FINALLY able to get my Desktop PC to boot from those damn 200GB hard drives that I purchased on Black Friday. I finally forced the drives into LBA mode and ran a fixboot and a fixmbr from the Recovery Console at that seemed to work. So hopefully when I get home I will have a working Windwos SP2 system installed from my Unattended DVD. Hopefully……
OK its about lunch time and I need to find some grub, maybe just a sammich or something.
UPDATE:
It would seem that I need to stick with a post and finish it, instead of taking about 4 hours or more to finally post it. Not only was Kelly able to post EVERYTHING that I did, but we had the same damn title for the post. Eh.