Day 1
We left our monitor in South Florida. It was bulky, heavy, and fragile enough to not be worth shipping. We left our keyboard because it didn't fit anywhere and because we do enough typing to justify getting a fancy keyboard. So we've got our computer but don't have anywhere to put it or a monitor or keyboard. Good thing my dad let us take his laptop (that's how I'm writing all this, mind you). Hopefully he'll get a better one for himself soon.Eventually - when I get a job - we'll get a second full-size computer so Isabel and I have separate ones again. But not yet.
I need to get my computer up and running soon; I've just arrived. I have no job. My possessions are all in boxes. I still feel like I'm visiting. I need to get my nest set back up again so I can settle into it. And when I have a computer back operational, that's half the work right there.
My goal is to either get things that are inexpensive enough so that I don't feel bad about throwing them away after a year or high quality enough so that I don't feel bad about keeping them. I know if I get mid-quality things I'll wind up keeping them and feeling bad about it.
So we went to IKEA. They don't have IKEA in South Florida. But they really should. It's a warehouse/factory showroom full of modular furniture. And it's got style. Like Target, only bigger and with more furniture. We picked up a bed frame, a drawer, and a table. Me and Rolando spent the night putting the bed frame together. Isabel and I slept on an air mattress again, but this time it was a foot off the ground. It helps. Really.
Day 2
We pick up a mattress. We go out to a Simmons factory outlet. Turns out mattresses usually run about $600-$1500. You never know that kind of thing until you have to buy a mattress. I had naively assumed that bedding would just kind of be there when we needed it. We go to a discount store and find the same mattress for about $300. Nothing makes a mattress seem like a bargain like finding it for sale at four times the price.
We discover our NIC died in transit. First it's not detected. I reseat it and the machine doesn't turn on. I unplug it and the machine doesn't POST.
Stopped at In & Out - I know it's a fast food chain, but they've got all these chains out here that I've never heard of - Jack-in-the-Box, Pollo Loco, King Taco, Taconazo, Vons, ...it's an adventure out here. Even eating fast food is an adventure out here.
We find that Oktagone, Namir Deiter's host, is down. Or rather, their nameservers that point to ND are down, so nobody can resolve the name to its IP address. Oktagone says they'll get it taken care of real soon now. Their webpage reports no outages.
