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our first baby Benjamin James 11 lbs 7 oz Born: 12/15 |
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We made it back! I have 500+ photos to download off my camera, and we had a great time! Before I left, I had been messing with my DVD burner, trying to FINALLY get my camcorder movies off the hard drive and onto a media to share... and failed, miserably. So I put them on the portable hard drive, and tried to do the same thing on my Dad's laptop (who also has an HP). Wouldn't you know, his works. So over the weekend we were able to burn everyone DVD's of the baptism and of Ben's delivery day. But in doing so, it made me realize how broken my laptop is (3 hrs of render time to convert my videos vs. the 14 hours it took on mine). Since we are still saving for the house, I of course can't afford a new laptop, and will use this one til it dies completely. But in the meantime, I'm now lusting over the MacBook Pro's... and saw the refurbished ones going for $1299. *sigh* Almost there! I'd want to upgrade the memory myself, and possibly the hard drive (if that's easy to do)... but even out of the box it kicks my laptop's ass ;)
But in the meantime, this one will have to do, and I can keep on dreaming. Who knows, maybe Apple will launch some crazy new notebook this fall before Christmas, and drive the price down for all the others ;)
Off to download photos!!
But in the meantime, this one will have to do, and I can keep on dreaming. Who knows, maybe Apple will launch some crazy new notebook this fall before Christmas, and drive the price down for all the others ;)
Off to download photos!!
| posted at 6:49 PM ~ comments (0) |
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July 20??? That's the last time I updated? Oy! Well, in my defense, the baby site has been getting more frequent updates... someday I'll find the time to combine the two, so that the updates don't seem so far and few between :)
House news = no news. We're still saving, and looking online. But no tours of open houses or anything yet. We're still waiting til the end of October/November to really get serious. And even then, we're still in no big rush!
Travel news, I'm off to NY tonight to meet up with Joe who left last Sunday. He took Lily with him, so it's just been Ben and I all week! We've had fun, but I miss the Bean and Joe. My parents are driving from Michigan to meet us in New York, and we are really looking forward to the annual Labor Day party on the lake! It's always fun, and it's Ben first! :)
Computer news, my laptop is ready to bite the dust. The DVD-RW drive no longer works, and the computer still randomly turns off if I try to edit more than 10 photos at a time via Adobe Bridge. Forget trying to run ANY video software. The DVD-RW drive reads cd's and dvd's, but won't write anymore. Which means my fancy cool HD Camcorder now can't be transferred to any media to watch on the DVD player. *sigh* I really need to replace it, and I will never, ever buy an HP laptop ever again. I had my eye on the Lenovo ThinkPad's... but I also really wish I could afford a Macbook Pro:
Yes, I would convert to Apple if I could afford it! I do more multimedia work on my personal computer than I do .NET programming, and even so, I can still run Parallel and install Visual Studio to do anything Microsoft related. But they are about $1000 more than any PC that I'd get... and there's no way I can justify that cost. :( Anyone have a Macbook they'd like to sell me? Or know of a leprechaun that grants wishes???
Other news, work is great, health is great, still working on losing the last 20 lbs of baby weight by Ben's first birthday. I'm still half doing Weight Watchers, and have successfully maintained my weight for the past two months. So now it's time to kick it into high gear, to get back on the losing wagon :)
Hope everyone has a great holiday weekend!!
House news = no news. We're still saving, and looking online. But no tours of open houses or anything yet. We're still waiting til the end of October/November to really get serious. And even then, we're still in no big rush!
Travel news, I'm off to NY tonight to meet up with Joe who left last Sunday. He took Lily with him, so it's just been Ben and I all week! We've had fun, but I miss the Bean and Joe. My parents are driving from Michigan to meet us in New York, and we are really looking forward to the annual Labor Day party on the lake! It's always fun, and it's Ben first! :)
Computer news, my laptop is ready to bite the dust. The DVD-RW drive no longer works, and the computer still randomly turns off if I try to edit more than 10 photos at a time via Adobe Bridge. Forget trying to run ANY video software. The DVD-RW drive reads cd's and dvd's, but won't write anymore. Which means my fancy cool HD Camcorder now can't be transferred to any media to watch on the DVD player. *sigh* I really need to replace it, and I will never, ever buy an HP laptop ever again. I had my eye on the Lenovo ThinkPad's... but I also really wish I could afford a Macbook Pro:
Yes, I would convert to Apple if I could afford it! I do more multimedia work on my personal computer than I do .NET programming, and even so, I can still run Parallel and install Visual Studio to do anything Microsoft related. But they are about $1000 more than any PC that I'd get... and there's no way I can justify that cost. :( Anyone have a Macbook they'd like to sell me? Or know of a leprechaun that grants wishes???
Other news, work is great, health is great, still working on losing the last 20 lbs of baby weight by Ben's first birthday. I'm still half doing Weight Watchers, and have successfully maintained my weight for the past two months. So now it's time to kick it into high gear, to get back on the losing wagon :)
Hope everyone has a great holiday weekend!!
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