OK, sorry for such a delay/lag in posting. I didn’t finish my Switzerland blog posts before I made it to Munich for Oktoberfest. Then Brussels was a whirlwind of packing my scattered stuff into two bags and figuring out what to leave behind since I was not about to pay 200 Euro to take a 3rd bag. Then I wrote a couple entries while waiting in the airport in Brussels to go home, but still haven’t caught up. I got home over two weeks ago now, it’s hard to believe. But the luxury at home is I can pretty much do whatever I want whenever I want, and initially that was meeting up with people (especially since my girlfriend was back here on vacation for a week) and getting my poor neglected house back in order (actually my roommates took pretty good care of it, but there’s always something you know).
Also I bought a laptop (literally walked in to Fry’s Electronics the first day I was back in Tempe and left within 45 minutes with a new laptop). I’d been nursing mine along with minor upgrades since I bought it in 2005 and could no longer convince myself that it was worth the frustration. Oh, and I suppose I’m a PC (a Dell Inspiron 15R had the right combination of features and value for me to save a week of online research and just do it-though I spent an hour at home afterwards searching to convince myself it was a good deal before opening the box). I quit my job a year ago so I can’t afford to be a Mac. If you were going to buy a bunch of extra software anyhow then the Mac would be a good deal because they come with a lot of nice programs out of the box; but I pretty much already had the software I’d be using and couldn’t justify spending double for it.
So the new laptop is my biggest excuse for not updating the blog sooner. Anytime I sat down at the computer I was either setting up new programs/preferences or just enjoying the bliss of being able to go online pretty much whenever I wanted and on my own computer. Plus switching computers did complicate being able to post good pictures (trying to remember if they were on the other computer or still on a memory card or on my external hard drive) with my blog entries and I really feel like blogging about a bike trip through Switzerland or being at Oktoberfest in München necessitates pictures. Blogging about procrastinating my blog does not require pictures. So I have just blogged while simultaneously procrastinating blogging. Or something like that.
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