This postFirst off, if you’re subscribed to the feed you may have noticed a bunch of Flickr photos coming through. I realized it was the last day of the month and so I had to upload enough to fill my quota for the month. :) When I get a digital camera, I’ll almost certainly upgrade my Flickr account. It’s addicting. :) (And it’s nice to have my photos online where I can share them with friends and family.)
Second, I picked up my laptop from the computer repair shop today, unfixed (but I still had to pay $65 for the diagnostic fee ~sigh~). Since last night I’ve been thinking twice about not needing a laptop. Portability would be pretty nice, as I detailed in my comment.
For the moment, though, I’ve realized that most of what I do can be accomplished on lab computers, at least for now. E-mail, blogging, even Photoshop and InDesign (but sadly not Illustrator; but then again I’ve hardly been using Illustrator at all lately).
So, what I’m most likely going to do is use lab computers until my $1,500 scholarship money from the Utah State Office of Education arrives, then use that to buy a MacBook. Hopefully they’ll introduce a new laptop at the WWDC next week (yeah right :)) and the MacBook prices will go down. I’d rather buy new and get a nice three-year warranty, for what that’s worth.
Anyway, enough of that. LibraryThing’s groups are cool. I’m still not quite sure how I ended up joining 57 groups (I’m ranked #3 right now) — they all seemed interesting to me. And heck, I am going to be a librarian. :) Once the summer’s over I’ll start getting more involved with LT, both on the Google Group and in the group message boards. I love talking about books. And that’s what my next post is going to be about. :)
