Yeah?

[mbarrick]

No!

I just got back from seeing "Blue Crush" with opium and uberbabe and I sooooooo want to go out in the water now. *sigh*

We ran into snap_dragon on Granville after the movie and I ran into Heath on the Seabus. Some drunk old guy was singing "Viva Las Vegas" on the Seabus.... ah... Transit.

Before meeting up for the movie I went up to the computer store district on West Broadway to spend some of the Gothic BC donation money (and hooray for kitsune_13 who donated today!). I decided to deviate from my usual supplier because some other guys down the street had a special on 80Gb hard drives and I thought I'd stretch my budget.This place is one of those stores that is of the "just pay and get the fuck out" school of customer service and I generally avoid them. I should have today. I went in and asked for the advertised special and the woman behind the counter simply said, "we're out of those" and walked away. No, "We'll be getting more in in a week, can I put one aside for you?" or "Perhaps I could interest you in this similar model for only $10 more?" - I stood stunned for a second. I considered asking when they would be getting more in or if they had something similar for half a second, then realised that the guys I usually deal with were only four blocks away and simply left. Turned out to be a good move. My usual suppliers had a similar model 80Gb drive on sale for $25 less, but they too were out, so for $10 more (still $15 less than the other guys) they offered me another 80Gb drive by a distinctly more reputable manufacturer. So, in the end, tax in, I saved $17 over the no-name special at the other guys and got a drive from a teir-1 manufacturer. Now it is just a matter to find the time to install it. I be much releived to replace the ageing drive in what was originally my test server and emergency backup ended up a "mission critical" peice of hardware . The drive it has been running on for the past two years is woefully undersized and came out of my "junk" pile when I cobbled the machine together as a test box. I will rest *much* easier with this in place.

And a funny thing happened walking along Broadway. I was actually cat-called by some shirtless frat-boy types for looking odd. That made my day. I've been feeling rather washed-out and ungothy lately.