Mr. Lush and I are in our Dublin hotel. No major issues with getting here - although we did have a small snaffu with the EL in Chicago - part of the service was disconnected so we switched to a bus....which added 40 mins to our drive. The Megabus was fine - a bit late taking off but we got to Chicago early so it all worked out.
Of course, its 9:30 am here and we're tired, but going to forge ahead with our day! We just wanted to drop a note and let everyone know where are here.
(to the new blog readers, we don't use our real names - just Mr. and Mrs. Lush)
Check back for more later!
Monday, June 8, 2009
Friday, May 29, 2009
Our new netbook and camera
Early last month I posed a question about Netbooks. Well, after some additional research, we bit the bullet and got one – an Acer w/ 160GB hard drive (which is a ton for a netbook- most have 8-16GB space thus can’t do much except run Windows) for a steal at Sam’s Club for $256.
(I wanted pink but got the blue one for Mr. Lush’s sake)
I didn’t know much about Acer but I asked around to some computer geeks at work and they came highly recommended, well over the HP I was considering. I poured over reviews and basically came up with occasionally, just like every electronic product, you might have a problem and need to call customer service….and Acer’s customer service evidently (or so I read) REALLY sucks. However, I purchased the extended warranty from Sams Club, so should something go wrong, I get to deal with Sams Club instead. So far, it appears to be working out great.
While I was shopping, I decided it was time for a new camera. We got the Canon PowerShot SD960 IS 12.1MP Digital Camera. (also could've gotten pink, but no, I got silver)
It *supposedly* takes good low light pictures….I’ll test it out this weekend and see how it goes. I know, SLRs are great....but they don't fit in your pocket and this is little - about 150% bigger than a deck of cards - and we need pocket size. Mr. Lush got a HUGE 8GB memory card for it…(on sale for $20 at Office Depot – also a great deal) so we have plenty of room for thousands of pics and videos. Also, the card just slips into the netbook, so I can just take pics from there to my blog and keep everyone updated on our European travels.
Things are looking ok…..still have a lot to do and we leave in 9 days but managed to cross 6 things off the list between yesterday and today!!
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Roadtripping frustrations
In honor of the recent holiday weekend we, along with 50,000 other St. Louisians went down I-44 to a lake (we happened to go to Table Rock Lake). During the road trip I encountered some frustrations.
1) Cops. Yep, sorry Mr. D, just didn’t like your kind this weekend. They were everywhere – bridges, overpasses, on ramps, off ramps, and at bottoms of steep hills (I think that might be called a speed trap!). Yes, we know. Don’t speed on a holiday weekend- got it. For the love of god, between the holiday traffic and the on/off pouring showers I TRIED to go above 75 to pass someone who was going 65 in the fast lane of a 70mph zone and couldn’t do it. The last thing I need is everybody braking because they see a cop in the pouring rain. Grr.
2) MODOT. Just in general. First, why are you re-striping things on holiday weekends? Why are you putting “Be Prepared To Stop” signs in the middle of nowhere? Once again, just to cause panic slowdowns? Grr!
3) My frickin passenger side seatbelt. It ALWAYS, ALWAYS locks up on me. Does anyone else have this problem or am I just a fidget freak? It doesn’t happen on the driver’s side, but it does with the passenger side every stinkin time. Doesn’t matter if we’re braking, cruising, stopped, etc. The darn thing locks up the moment I move and never goes free again until I unbuckle it, let it go all the way up, then take it back out. WTF??
I will note though that Layla was a very good girl in the car. Pretty much slept the whole way there and the whole way back. Good puppy. Except for pooping while Mommy had you on the leash in the parking lot - you should've saved that for Daddy.
1) Cops. Yep, sorry Mr. D, just didn’t like your kind this weekend. They were everywhere – bridges, overpasses, on ramps, off ramps, and at bottoms of steep hills (I think that might be called a speed trap!). Yes, we know. Don’t speed on a holiday weekend- got it. For the love of god, between the holiday traffic and the on/off pouring showers I TRIED to go above 75 to pass someone who was going 65 in the fast lane of a 70mph zone and couldn’t do it. The last thing I need is everybody braking because they see a cop in the pouring rain. Grr.
2) MODOT. Just in general. First, why are you re-striping things on holiday weekends? Why are you putting “Be Prepared To Stop” signs in the middle of nowhere? Once again, just to cause panic slowdowns? Grr!
3) My frickin passenger side seatbelt. It ALWAYS, ALWAYS locks up on me. Does anyone else have this problem or am I just a fidget freak? It doesn’t happen on the driver’s side, but it does with the passenger side every stinkin time. Doesn’t matter if we’re braking, cruising, stopped, etc. The darn thing locks up the moment I move and never goes free again until I unbuckle it, let it go all the way up, then take it back out. WTF??
I will note though that Layla was a very good girl in the car. Pretty much slept the whole way there and the whole way back. Good puppy. Except for pooping while Mommy had you on the leash in the parking lot - you should've saved that for Daddy.
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