2005-04-09 – A Scott Odyssey

Yesterday Jayson, Danny, & I took off to Starbucks to study (tech books), talk about work, etc. We have wanted to try that for a while but have been busy. We finally made it out. James joined us for a bit, but was busy and had to go. First, the starbucks in Union Square was noisy. Yes there are actually 2 Starbucks in Union Square but I assume the other one was as noisy as this one. Jayson says the one by his house is not as bad and he has gone to read and drink coffee for hours without problems. I felt like I was back in High School with two tables of extremly loud high school girls sitting rite by us. The place was packed. 4 of us sat at a table made for 2. Totally not the laid back experience we were looking for. not sure if I will suggest that again.

We did make productive use of our time while we were there. I tried out the T-Mobile Hotspots. I used it in Delta crown rooms before but I wanted to give it a shot at Starbucks. There were 3 free networks in range (or so the laptop said), but I couldn’t connect to any of them. So I paid. it is not cheap, but it works great. We ended up shopping for an LCD TV online. as I said in my post yesterday the specs I want are just too pricey right now.

Today I cleaned my apartment. I got rid of most of the clutter, did the floors, dusted, etc. I hate cleaning almost as much as I dislike doing the laundry. I need to do that also, but I may just have it done again this week.

Part of this cleaning was me backing up a bunch of CD-ROM’s I had lying around. They start to pile up. I backed up everything of value onto my computer and then stored the CD’s. I tossed the rest of the crap. With blank CD’s so cheap I find myself burning crap and then just tossing them in a few weeks when I don’t need them anymore.

Didn’t do very much else today. I tried to sleep in but couldn’t. I have not been sleeping well for weeks. I used to be able to sleep till noon on weekend’s now I can barely make it till 9AM without getting up at least once.