Hi, Honey!
I’m home!
Trip was excellent. Had a fairly major squabble with DH on the morning that we came back home, but the fact that he took me to a really cool restaurant I’d been peeping all weekend helped. And I guess those couple of those big margaritas didn’t hurt either. They had me feeling pretty good in spite of him, and able to deal with him in the car on the long way home… which ended up a lot longer due to a missed turn which landed us on the other side of the state (oops!). We worked it all out the following evening, and I think made a breakthrough. At least it was a productive fight, eh?
The worst part was when we got home, though. When we were leaving to go on the trip I got all the pics on the camera OFF the camera, but didn’t have time to back them up to CD. So I turned the computer off, which is something that just doesn’t happen usually. Afterall, it’s hard for a computer to crash and lose all your information when it’s not on! Besides, just a few months ago I had it overheating and all sorts of awful stuff even with a flash fire in there because of some dust getting burnt up. So it was off.
We got home, I got everything taken care of and put away, and turned my computer on. And there was the awfullest grinding noise I’d ever heard. Pretty disheartening, it was. I called DH right away and he said it sounded like it was failing. So I backed up my pics real quick, hoping it wouldn’t go kaput right away. DH said not to turn it off, that if it’s booted, to leave it booted because it might not next time. Then later my toe brushed up against the power button and shut it off. Crap! It booted again, loudly. Then last night I went home to find out that X, who is now just 3 weeks shy of turning 2, pressed the button and shut it off. Except it booted quietly then. I’d like to think that’s a good sign, but I know better. These problems don’t just go away.
The good news about all that, though, is that I had been really Jonesin’ for a bigger hard drive. I’ve amassed quite the music collection, plus I take my pictures at high resolution so that also takes up a lot of space. Not to mention the programs I use, the files they create, and the setup files for different versions of all the programs (sometimes it’s better to have an old version but you don’t know until that time comes). And that’s why my 160GB hard drive is almost full, and I’m needing at least a 320. Except I *could* rearrange, etc etc, and “make do”. But now that the old one is flopping anyway… I see no reason not to put the extra $50 on it to double the space. Of course, not that I’ve got the money for even the smaller drive right now, but I’m hoping to work out a payment arrangement or something with DH. I think he gets “terms” with his vendors anyway…
Anyway, back to the trip- we had a blast with the glow-in-the-dark miniature golf, the train show, the bounce arena (a 13,000 square foot place filled with really huge ‘moonwalking’ type stuff with slides and tunnels etc), finding tons of great food, etc, but would also like to go back during the summer. The weather was fantastic, plenty of sun to shine off the bay and *no snow*, but it seemed there were more places closed than open because it was off-season. We never made it to the paint-your-own-pottery place and that would be fun too.
Well anyway, I’m back. You can stop missing me now 