Domestic Geek

Marcus visited the Apple Computer Dallas Headquarters building today. He says his company's training facility is located in the same building.

Marcus spent his first night in Dallas. He sent me this picture that he took in his hotel while we were on ICQ. Man, can you tell he's a techie? Look at all that paraphernalia in the background.

Well, I saw Marcus off for Dallas at 4:30 this morning. I was crying when he left. How lame is that? Part of me was sad that I wasn't going and part of me was missing him already. But, I'm better now and I'm going to busy myself with housework and such. He called me when he stopped for gas in Russell, KS (the home of Bob Dole). It used to be a cute little town, but Marcus says it kind of like a ghetto now. That's sad. He was a little upset at the rental car place. They were supposed to get him something like a Taurus, but when we went to pick it up yesterday, they didn't have any full-size cars available. The best they claimed they could do was a Hyundai Sante Fe. That's an ugly vehicle, let me tell you. He's a little excited about the trip, though. There is a Hooters and Medieval times a block away from the warehouse they're working at and the Apple Store is a 10 minute drive from the hotel.

I got myself the Sims Hot Date for my iMac yesterday. That'll help kill some time in the next week before I go back to school.

I have to go back to work tonight and I'm already hating that idea. I'm to the point where I actually loathe the people I work with/for. That's not healthy. Working in a pizza joint is NOT rocket science and it really irks me that these morons can't/won't do their jobs correctly. To me, it shows a real lack of character on their part. Most of all, the futility of it all is overwhelming me. They're not going to change for the better and continue to get worse and I don't have the power to change any of it. I need to do something where I feel like a contributor, where what I do matters. *sigh* I hope that something comes as a result of this new school I'm attending.

OK, well, it rained this morning and it is relatively cool outside, so I'm off to do some yardwork until the nosy neighbors drive me back inside.

How geeky are we now? Marcus got a Sony Playstation display (the ones like you see at Toys R Us or CompUsa where you get to try the games). The place he works got 80 never-used original Playstation store displays that were offered for sale to the employees. Since more than 80 wanted them, the names were put in a lottery and Marcus got one. We had to take it apart to get it into the house. I popped myself in the lip with it and now it's so puffy my mouth won't close right. Marcus said I could tell people he punched me. Dork. The only bad things were the power button on the back doesn't function and the promotional disk that it was supposed to come with was missing. I'll post a pic here as soon as we get it totally set up. It's in the middle of our family/computer room at the moment.

Now we get to put the tv from the family room into the bedroom since the display came with a 20" Trinitron. Sweet. I like watching tv in bed, but the other one was so small it gave me a headache.

Speaking of which, I must go to bed now. G'night.