Abode
Got a new place in Alpharetta. Space won out over location. The lease starts tomorrow, the POD arrives Thursday, Comcast shows Friday. This is going to be a psychotic weekend.
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MoneyWell is Amazing
MoneyWell is amazing. After years suffering through Quicken and MYOB and retreating to Excel, I entered every transaction back to the start of 2008 in one evening, and the totals line up perfectly. As awesome as finance software gets for a Type A personality.
Background Pictures
I'm picky about desktop pictures, usually settling on plain grey. But reading Atlas Shrugged this evening, I noticed the moon behind a figurehead statue on a distant building, and after a lot of toying around in Photoshop, here's the result.
Not a Workout
To the lady on the treadmill beside me: 3.5mph for five minutes is not actually working out in any meaningful sense. Your singing did make me want to go faster, in an effort to escape, but being on a treadmill myself, it didn't help.
Ender's Game
Having burned through Anthem in Anchorage, I picked up my first Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game. Highly entertaining. The very end got a bit too cheesy for me, but it's a quick read, so even if you disagree it won't cost you much time.
Bigger and Better
I registered whereiscurtis.com, though there's nothing there yet. Meanwhile, I made a trade: I agreed to read Sense and Sensibility. As payback I considered the cruelest books I know, but settled on Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury. We'll see.
Three Cheers for Gold Medallion Status
Delta confirmed my upgrade to Seattle, then it's back to the cattle car for Anchorage. I'm already on Alaska time, so staying up all night before a 4am ride makes a kind of sense. Also: ninety pounds up sixty-three flights of stairs, for the last time. Seventy-six hours.
Brevity
I ordered a burrito and the doorman's call went the long way around, as it always does, because they can't seem to hear me until they finish the whole greeting. Then I hauled my ninety-pound pack up fifty flights, and my legs threw me around like moon gravity afterward.
A Book
An iPod Nano is settled, but I still need a book for Alaska. Atlas Shrugged is too much beast to finish, and I won't tear off a third of it. I need something Animal Farm-sized and, since I'll be running at half brain capacity, not too challenging. Ideas welcome.
Mac vs PC
Is there a Mac Tax? Do Macs cost more than PCs? Like the can-you-prove-God-exists debate, it's the wrong question. If you're choosing a computer mainly on price, it hardly matters which you buy, because you'll just stare at it and think, what now?
