Yesterday, as I was taking a load from my old place to the new, I was thinking about what a person could tell about me by looking at what I had in the apartment at that time. Every load I took away, the distinctness that is me fades. I then thought about ideas of reincarnation, and how it might feel a bit like that to transition between lives. Fantasy, true, but imagination is important, even if it's not always fruitful.
Today I moved the last of the stuff out of the apartment proper, at least of the stuff I'm taking. Torgo and kryten will be sharing a monitor from now on, and probably a keyboard too -- I ordered a KVM off of EBay a few days ago to make that easier. Kryten's old monitor is, thus, staying behind. It works out for the best this way -- the monitor I left is larger, has poorer resolution (torgo's monitor is a very neat 12" (or is it 10"?) server monitor that can do 1024x768).
I've abandoned Starbucks, in favour of a place called Coffee Tree. It's not far from Starbucks, has better tea, and has tables right out front, so people can sit outside. Sometimes I see other people from Zets there, or walking by, which is nice. The prices are a lot better too, actually. I guess I've come to the conclusion that big chains tend to be a negative force. The stores don't always suck -- as a matter of fact, offhand I think about half of them are decent, but they reduce diversity, so when a bad chain comes along, it strangles a local market. That's dangerous -- if there were six coffeeshops around, I'd just avoid the ones I dislike. However, when there are 4 starbucks and Coffee Tree, it really makes me worry. What if Coffee Tree wern't here? What if I liked a different blend than either offered? I guess I need to revise my previous thoughts on stores I like -- I used to suggest that Meijer take over everywhere, because I really like that store, that it has a lot of stuff I'd otherwise need to make trips to seperate stores to get. However, there really are different preferences, different markets, and all that, and Meijer isn't for everyone.
I'm angry that DSL still isn't up for me. How long do I need to wait? I'm calling Verizon on monday to complain, unless it's up by then. Maybe I'm just ignorant of how it's set up, but I don't see any reason they couldn't've turned on my DSL on Hobart at the same time they turned on phone service here.
Again, I find that I've jotted down a lot of my interesting thoughts on paper, and I don't really want to bother transcribing them right now.
- shrug*
I did find out something neat today -- I was using my DVD player to identify CDs I had burned, and was surprised to find that it can play MP3 CDs. The directory browser's a bit awkward on it, but it's a very neat discovery. I then found out that it can display images on CDs too. If only my CD player were the one I intended, I'd burn a lot more CDs full of MP3s. Still, it's a welcome surprise.
I find myself missing Charles, and also a couple of artists who I probably shouldn't name, who are friends of his. I still don't think that what he did was a good thing, but I think it's time I forgive him. I'm not sure what we really could have now, as a lot of the manifestation of our friendship is impossible now, given that I'm about 200 miles away from cowtown, but the time has certainly come for me to at least lift the bar on my part.