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August 24, 2005
If I Was a Rich Girl And.... {nonknitting post}
I think the stuff my friend told me to get for blocking this shawl just does not exist in the Midwest. Therefore I will block it tomorrow on the bed and hope it dries before my husband gets home. It will be my typical cheesy blocking job but at least we will have a reasonable idea of finished size and drape. Maybe my friend will send me some of this magical blocking aid and we can have something looking even more fab later. Til then electronics!
I am not an electronically minded person. I appreciate modern marvels but really don't care to know how or why they work. The first time I ever saw a home computer was 1975. To tell you the truth it looked just like my home computer now~ a screen and keyboard. If there was some hidden room sized thing making it work I never noticed. My husband assures me I am confused about playing a D&D sorta game on the computer back then. But really my friends, or actually my parents friends, worked for the gov't doing some sorta secret stuff and they had a computer. The training used for becoming used to the competer, according to their children who were my friends, was to randomly get some skill sets[roll the die] til you were happy with strength etc. and then meander through some land dealing with various potions and magical artifacts and treasures and enemies. I recall playing this vividly. 1975. Fast forward to the next time I handled a computer.... 1995. Luddite am I. Luddite enough to hit buy it now, bid and read or send emails. Good enough for me. So I have been thinking about electronics because I misplaced my phone. To be honest I know exactly where I left it:
I have been window shopping for phones. How totally kewl is that Razr? The black one? You can check emails with it! You probably can check emails with any cell phone but I just didn't know til now.
Ummmm begin rant Now when I told my hubby I couldn't find my phone he said well OK he was planning on ordering one to add Auntie onto our plan and would just order another for me~ did I want a camara etc etc etc. I dunno. He mentions he wants a special phone for himself. Anyway later on after reading reviews and coming accross this nifty phone I ask him what he thinks of it. You can't have that phone. Its too expensive and fancy for you. Thats the phone I want! grrrrrrrrrr. I had thought of getting two of them for Xmas but that was just too insulting. If anybody gets the Razr its ME and not US Ummm rant over.
Anyway if I was a Rich Girl And I could figure out how to make it work and you know sign up for a plan and such I would get myself a Razr. I don't deal with stuff like that.
While perusing cell phones I thought of my other pet peave :
There is yet another unphotographed room with another 2 computers on it. We have a network and our own server whatever that means. I want a nice notebook. I know we are set up for wireless computers since whenever I mention how nice and steamlined they are and how portable and blah blah blah they are my husband kindly mentions he has a notebook. Bully for him. Why do computer's have to glom up two rooms? And he is even thinking of getting desks for the girls rooms and putting computers in their rooms. As far as I am concerned the girls can do their homework at the kitchen table under my watchful eye and use a notebook instead of turning my entire house into a maze of wires. My sister has a VAIO and her apartment looks a bazillion times bigger without the desk and components. She carries it everywhere with her but since I am generally non mobile I am eyeing this baby. My husband, being a computer and electrical engineer, is picky about brands and probably doesn't approve of either. But what I can't figure out is how do they work? I mean if you take a laptop to campus, for example, are you glomming offa some hapless soul's connection? Do you have to step into some cyber cafe? I mean why be portable if you can't just whip it out? And where do you connect the Razr and printer and such? If I were a Rich Girl And could figure out these things I would so be insisting upon a laptop. Two. One for me and one for the kids. Ditch those bohemeths.
Speaking of Bohemeths:
I hate those wires. I hate all those things connected to the TV just to make it work~ VCR, Stereo, Stereo speakers, DVD player, some other stereo thingie, and of course the Dish thingamabob. Plus the Tv itself is fatter than I am. Heck the speakers are fatter than I am. For reference sake I am a dress size 22 aka fat. For several years I thought of saving my knitting money and purchasing some Virtually Invisible Speakers but whenever I mention the brand[fishing for gift suitability] my husband shudders and says they sux. Whenever he does his ugh routine I think of that scene from Ruthless People where Judge Reinhold is selling the pimply faced teenager the concert arena sized stereo system on tetosterone value. BTW Hilarious Movie. And now they have skinny televisions such as this one. They so should have a built in DVD player like the aforementioned Desktop replacement. If I was a Rich Girl And could figure out how the heck the speakers and DVD and dish could connect without looking like some frankensteinian lab subject I would so be stomping my feeties. Which are small.
OK thats the wonders of modern technology as far as I can tell. Oh if only....
Edited to add...OH Lordie almost forgot the thing that made posting my gadget-y dreams worthwhile. The Prius which was just a dream 12 years ago. Or at least plug in and hybrid cars were a green person's wet dream. My hippy dippy self so wants one of these. I wonder if I can talk my husband into trading my SUV for it. Maybe I can talk him into trading his 9 year old Grand Am for my SUV and a loan for the Prius. That car was so my wet dream years ago.
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