Nerdiness of Nic

I quit my job and my gf is mad at me yet again but I feel better about my life overall. I already have a few interviews for administrative positions, including one with a legal job placement agency tomorrow. They helped me get my first job with a law firm so I have good faith they'll be able to help me again. I'm not too worried about the job situation, I always seem to do well with finding new ones.

Although for the time being I'm sticking with administrative positions.

My parents are leaving for a cruise tomorrow. I've agreed to drive them to the airport. Their flight leaves at 6 am and since it's an international flight they're supposed to get at the airport two hours before their plane is scheduled to depart. Which means I'll have to wake up at 3 am to drive them there.

I'll be watching the house for them while they're gone. That should provide a nice respite from the still angry gf and maybe by the time they get back she'll be less angry. Plus Vlad loves running around their much larger backyard and he enjoys playing with Daisy. In the meantime I'll keep up my job search while working my way through all of my Star Trek Voyager dvds. I'm currently halfway through Season 4 which I'm happy about since that's the season Seven of Nine finally shows up in.

I do love Seven. Especially with Janeway.

Tomorrow I'll get back to work on the newest chapter of my Hermione/Luna fanfic. I have a loose ending for it plotted out and I need to finish the story so I can work on a few Janeway/Seven stories I have planned.

My brother is departing for Law School at American University in the beginning of August. His PowerBook has been acting up for quite awhile now because it's almost four years old and has been running through all his undergrad college years as his main computer. Playing World of Warcraft on a laptop for several years and leaving the laptop plugged in constantly doesn't exactly help extend the life of the computer but oh well, what can you do? College student and such.

Anyway! Because of these issues he's been wanting to get a new computer for when he goes off to law school and just use his laptop to take to class and the library for research. Being deemed the nerdy computer person in the family I was asked to go with my mother and him to the Mac store today. My mom paid for the computer but I'm writing her check for half the amount as it's going to be his early early early Christmas present from us.

Dude.

I have no idea why but I completely forgot the new iPhone came out today for purchase. I have no idea how this happened seeing as I have the current iPhone and because of that Mac has been emailing since they announced a new version release once a week to remind me I must be that much of a Mac addict to upgrade my phone just for faster interwebs access no matter the fact I get ten extra bucks tacked onto my wireless bill and no unlimited texting. Bah. I'll keep my current dinosaur iPhone thank you very much.

Though I do covet my brother's new iMac. Which is odd since it just has a faster processor than mine and is only a few months newer. I have 2.4 GHZ and his is 2.66 GHZ. Maybe because it seems shinier. My iMac, before I did a complete reboot, was doing this odd thing where it randomly turned itself off. Sucked ass. It seems to be fixed now.

Point of this story? None really but I shall do my best to fucking remember when there is a big release of shiny new toys I decide to visit the Mac store. Yeesh. They had a line that went almost to entrance of our mall and the Mac store is practically in the center. I was greatly amused by the two police officers they had stationed at the door. We were put into a smaller "non-iPhone customer" line to wait to come in.

Why must people have shiny new toys right away? I like to wait for the bugs to be worked out. I mean, I admit I get obsessive about seeing certain movies on their release date, such as The Dark Knight, but it doesn't seem wise to buy brand new technology on the day it comes out. Leave a bit of time for improvement.