decidedlyodd

Yesterday, I got up fairly early and did a little bit of shopping downtown. My first stop was Office Depot where I looked at office furniture and projectors. They only had a couple models there, but some were fairly cheap. That said, I wasn’t terribly impressed with what you can get for your money. I may instead just end up buying a TV that’s small enough to fit into my car. That’s actually probably a good way to avoid buying an extravagant TV, but I digress. After that, I wandered around downtown a bit, mainly looking at furniture. I went to Macy’s as well as some furniture place that was having a clearance sale. They had some OK tables and chairs in the second place, but they weren’t that great. At Macy’s, things were a bit more upscale yet I still couldn’t find any tables/chair sets that I liked. They did have some nice bedroom furniture, but I’m still not sure what components I want to buy. I’m having a hard time mentally justifying the spending of money on a big wooden bedframe. In the end, I’ll probably just get a nightstand and possibly a chest of drawers, although my mother brought up the point that a good closet organizer often works better for the latter.

Then I headed back home to wait for the delivery of my bed. The mattress, box spring and stand arrived right on time at around 3pm. I washed the new sheets I bought and took care of some other laundry needs, which was good. Unfortunately, the laundry in my building costs $1.50 per wash and $1.50 per dry which is fairly pricey. They’re big machines in good condition though. If wanted to be really cheap, I could go to the laundromat down the street, which may or may not be cheaper. In the meantime, I started filling out the paperwork to open a free checking account at a local bank mainly so that I’ll have an account to get free ATM withdrawls and things like rolls of quarters from.

On a whim, I drove down to Fry’s last night in Renton to see what kind of projectors, TVs, random computer stuff they have down there. It’s nice to be back in the land of Fry’s. I remember shopping at the one in Fountain Valley regularly when I was in high school. When I was living in the bay area, all of them were really too far away from Berkeley to be of much use to me. Once I took BART down to Fremont to buy a desperately needed motherboard, but otherwise I only went there when other people were driving. They didn’t have much in the way of projectors though. Frankly, I think the projector idea is dying out in my mind, at least for now. They had some decent 20 inch TVs that would fit in my car and be luggable upstairs. Interestingly, the 24 inch model I was looking at the other day weighed 100 pounds whereas these 20 inch models weigh only about 50 pounds. I guess the weight scales in a quadratic or cubic way.

Last night, I did get to sleep in my new bed, so that’s progress. Also, today at work I found out online that there’s a public library right near my place and that they have free wireless internet. That will hopefully help sate my internet needs over the next few days. For some reason I thought my internet access was getting connected Wednesday, but it turns out that the phone company was just coming by to test the line. Despite Speakeasy telling me somebody absolutely needed to be home all day to wait around, apparently they did it today while I was at work. Now, I have an appointment for the actual service hookup on the 10th. That means another roughly two weeks of no internet at home, but I suppose I’ll manage.