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The last hardware for my computer—a combination floppy drive and USB card reader—arrived on Friday, and I installed it yesterday afternoon. ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
cattitude provided instruction on topics like which cables I needed and what order to do things in, and I did all the physical stuff. This not only gives me a stronger feeling that it's my machine, it's stuff I might need to know sometime. We tested the drive and the install by pulling some photos I'd taken a month or two ago off the memory card on Cattitude's old camera. (I very much want to have a floppy drive, but had no immediate need for it; it's a combination of having stuff on old diskettes and a vague feeling of insecurity at the idea of being without one.)
I still need to install DVD-writing software, which is more practically relevant to backups and data storage here and now.
In the evening, we joinedbeetiger for dinner out as part of her birthday celebration (having skipped the perfume-sniffing and karaoke parts of the day). We agreed that we should see each other more often (I think it had been 3.5 years since the last time). Also there were her partners, bardbloom and lediva, their child, and two pleasant, somewhat shy-seeming women whose names escape me at the moment. We ate Chinese food and chatted, including some about Boston-area stuff, since lediva is from up there, and the couple whose names I forget live in Somerville; one of them recommended a place called Mary Chung's in Central Square for dim sum that includes a reasonable amount of vegetarian-suitable; I may try to take adrian_turtle there at some point. (I explained that the constraint there is no shrimp or pork, and she noted that it's not an explicitly vegetarian place, but one with a good variety of vegetarian stuff, and that they also have chicken.)
cattitude provided instruction on topics like which cables I needed and what order to do things in, and I did all the physical stuff. This not only gives me a stronger feeling that it's my machine, it's stuff I might need to know sometime. We tested the drive and the install by pulling some photos I'd taken a month or two ago off the memory card on Cattitude's old camera. (I very much want to have a floppy drive, but had no immediate need for it; it's a combination of having stuff on old diskettes and a vague feeling of insecurity at the idea of being without one.)I still need to install DVD-writing software, which is more practically relevant to backups and data storage here and now.
In the evening, we joined
beetiger for dinner out as part of her birthday celebration (having skipped the perfume-sniffing and karaoke parts of the day). We agreed that we should see each other more often (I think it had been 3.5 years since the last time). Also there were her partners, bardbloom and lediva, their child, and two pleasant, somewhat shy-seeming women whose names escape me at the moment. We ate Chinese food and chatted, including some about Boston-area stuff, since lediva is from up there, and the couple whose names I forget live in Somerville; one of them recommended a place called Mary Chung's in Central Square for dim sum that includes a reasonable amount of vegetarian-suitable; I may try to take adrian_turtle there at some point. (I explained that the constraint there is no shrimp or pork, and she noted that it's not an explicitly vegetarian place, but one with a good variety of vegetarian stuff, and that they also have chicken.)Tags: