Catching up... ...it's a particle board world.
Friday: UW SWAP. Much needed technojunk meandering. Met my $200 budget with a P2 and P3 tower, 17'' monitor, mouse, funky ConcertMaster keyboard, $10 bib overalls, $5 HP Deskjet 89?s? which was one off from my copier ink type. P2 lasted a day before power supply (I hope) died. P3 is awaiting Gentoo CD's and more time. The gathering was a bit tamer than your usual swap meet or ham fest. With 10 people in line at 7:20 for an 8:00 open, I was hedging my bets against getting a machine, especially after #3 sported an E-Bay t-shirt. When they marked my P3 system with tape (then I had 30 minutes to purchase it) they marked the monitor, later someone else claimed the CPU. Staff was friendly and quickly remidied it upon my clarification.
The SWAP has an Auction with an EOS Rebel G that I'd love to buy, currently around $90, but we have other items on the wish list before replacing working stuff. Sticking with the Pentax ME Super for now and from the looks of it will snag a flash from e-Bay. The Advantix 25mm camera's are better than granny's 110, but a solid disappointment from a focus and shoot 35mm. Tam wondered about digital, but I'm pretty sure at our $150 price point it's not there yet. Insight appreciated--also looking for a good $3-400 camcorder to replace Panasonic VHS-C model which did fine but lost sound and light. (Also welcoming suggestions on the other item on our list is a carpet cleaner.
Carpet cleaning: Interrupted by a forgetten-juice-cup-on-a-bookshelf-fruit-fly cleaning fest, but more progress made than last time we rented one. We read it takes 3 days for them to be gone, and that seems to be about right. During cleaning Ike dumped grapejuice on carpeting filling his own cup! Cleaned up in a jiffy, unlike today's 3 cups of strawberry apple sauce...)
Get outta dodge Saturday:' Target store a success with baby formula "check" coupons honored for full amount (over purchase price!), needed dresser for boys was $99, now $66. Putting that together tonight took longer than I expected, but I'm getting good enough at these not to have to re-assemble half of it. After seeing the bill was well over $100, I accepted a credit card offer for 10% off, followed it up with onsite payment. Note to self: Cancel that puppy! Took the long way home and drove through Powers Bluff.
Get outta dodge Sunday: Cheese factory in Rudolph. Closed at noon at Sunday, so head to the Grotto. Nice walk around gardens, and cool break walking through the Wonder Cave, which Evan and Ike enjoyed spelunking.
What? No Rutabaga Festival?? 6 hours of driving with an infant and toddlers looked to be too much for a parade and carnival. Maybe we'll coordinate a weekend out of it later and include the Twin Cities. Since my own rutabaga garden is down to 1 plant, thumb sized root, perhaps I should put a bounty on a square rutabaga? Also a reality check for not going is that I purchased the children's book Eat Rutabagas from Barnes & Noble and still have yet to blog about it.
I'm still trying to (passively) figure out how I've managed to gather this Google Image link in my referral list.
I intended to blog tonight regarding the similarities between in-source version control messages and weblogs. But this kind of rambling is so much easier...
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