Domestic Geek

It never fails that when one bad thing happens, more come in a cluster.

The battery in my UPS died recently and it started a chain of battery failures. My camera batteries will no longer hold a charge. The motherboard battery on my mac is getting weak. My laptop's battery won't hold a charge for more than about 20 minutes (kind of misses the point of being portable when I always have to find a plug right away). I have to be really close to my car for my door remote to lock/unlock. Heck, even Marcus mentioned that he thinks he may need to get Watch Batteries soon.

It's frustrating trying to purchase these locally because even the nearby specialty battery store didn't carry my laptop battery when we stopped in. Fortunately we have the Internet and online stores like LowCostBatteries.com to make our life easier. I checked and they carry every single battery I need to replace right now. They even carry the hearing aid batteries that my father uses. I'll definitely be making a purchase from these guys in the very near future.

Do yourself a favor and save yourself the gas money and the headaches and just get your batteries online and delivered to your door. Do something fun, like draining the battery on your video iPod instead!

As I mentioned in the last post, we have an Apple TV (tv if you're an Apple Geek) in our household. We've decided that we're going to dump our Dish Network service (unless they have a very cheap basic plan available) and just rely on iTunes and the Internet for our entertainment. I already watch old television and movies through Netflix and most of the shows I watch have episodes on the networks' sites. We could get season passes for our most favorite shows (such as The Office) and still save money by ditching the dish for now. The only problem I foresee is stuff on USA (Psych, The 4400, etc) and a few other shows.

Honestly, though, I'll probably survive just fine not seeing any of them. I'm looking for part time work in the evenings and won't have much free time anymore anyway because getting out of this mobile home is becoming an obsession. We stopped in at PetSmart to get Timothy hay for the bunnies and my heart ached seeing all the dogs and their owners. I want to be a dog owner again so bad. This is the first time in my life that nobody in my family has had a dog and I feel lost.

As I sit here after midnight, tired as hell and in terrible toothache pain waiting for the ibuprofin to kick in, I decided to catch up on some feeds in my Google Reader. I came across an article written on the Emtwo blog where Melissa had mentioned that she had just upgraded her design company's computers to the newest version of Thunderbird. I have been so busy and out of touch lately that I didn't realize that a new version of Thunderbird had been released (it's now at version 2). If you don't already know, Thunderbird is a really neat mail app from the folks at Mozilla, producers of Firefox, one of the coolest browsers ever in my not so humble opinion. I just upgraded, as well, and will have to look into what new features are included sometime when I'm not so freaking tired.

Wow, I had a busy week last week. I'm still recovering, thus my absence from posting. I think last week's events will be the subject of this week's Thursday Thirteen.

Anyhow, at the opening of the newest Denver area Apple Store last weekend at Park Meadows mall, Marcus and I saw a guy wearing an iTrek shirt. I wish I had the guts to ask strangers to pose for pictures. I just remembered to look that up. I'm so getting one of these. The dude was wearing the one I have pictured to the right there. --->

I'm torn as to weather to get a red shirt in that style, or a blue one with the Vulcan on it. Decisions, decisions. I guess I'll just have to eventually get both. LOL

Well, OK, the poor mouse isn't stupid, it's just getting old and worn out. I have this Logitech laser mouse that I've been noticing hasn't been responding as well as it used to. I especially hate how it responds when I'm trying to draw in Illustrator. It's harder than heck to grab a point. Well, early in the week I noticed it wasn't even starting to place the cursor well and if I needed to select some specific text, forget about it! We stopped in at CompUsa yesterday and I discovered I can't afford a new mouse. Marcus said I could use the mighty mouse that came with his new Mac. After an evening of using that, my poor hand hurt so bad! Why can't Apple ship an ergonomically friendly mouse? So, I guess I'm stuck moving my corded Logitech mouse back and forth from my PC to my Mac until I can afford a new mouse.