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[multipurposegoddess]

What was happening with me yesterday? Oh, right:

• 09:06 Must buy critter food before a Looney Toon alliance of bird, cat & dog engineers my downfall.
• 10:44 PetClub bound. Finally.
• 13:16 Well, that was a lot harder than it needed to be
• 13:32 DMV Time!
• 19:29 Migrating more data, woohoo!

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Took the dog to Pet Club, because I can. I think I was actually a more efficient shopper with him in tow, since he will stop at random to sniff things that I know we don't need rather than etting frozen with indecision in an aisle full of bags of dry food trying to remember (a) what kind I got last time (b) whether anyone liked it and (c)how much fits in the container. So that was fine and I got to checkout in what seemed like short order. And at that point I completely failed at using my debit card. My bank sent me a new one recently and a new PIN, which I don't have memorized and the little trick I use to record it where it was not obviously a PIN maybe I didn't do right, I don't know, it didn't work and I didn't have my checkbook and obviously if I don't know my PIN I can't run to an ATM and get cash, and they don't take credit at Pet Club. I was pretty sure the thing the bank mailed me with the PIN on it was sitting on my desk at home, so I asked the ice cashier to set my purchases aside while I ran home and got it. It wasn't there. It wasn't anywhere. I did find my checkbook, though, so I went back without the dog and finished the transaction.

By then it was pretty much to go to lunch and the DMV. Grilled cheese and chili at Bab's, hooray! Grillled cheese comes with fries, which I always forget, and that was too much food. The DMV was pretty painless - we had an appointment and only had to wait a little while, we actually had all the documentation necessary (though DH had forgotten his DL somehow, but they just looked him up and confirmed that that was him), DH knows his PIN so that payment went smoothly and the seller had done the smogging very recently so we don't have to do that, either. Easy is so nice.

Got home and my Parallels and Windows XP discs had arrived, so I spent the rest of the day installing and migrating. Today will be more set up and actual use of my Windows only software (thus far, Quickbooks for work and MasterCook on fatoudust 's recommendation which I've liked but having it only available as a sort of timeshare o my husband's desktop has really limited me. I'm so looking forward to inventorying the pantry!)

Now that I've got 4 accounts and 3 virtual machines on the laptop, I expect some fat-trimming and consolidation is going to be necessary for efficiency. It'll be interesting to see of this makes me more visible, since I will be on the computer after all, or less, since I will probably be doing not very interesting things.

Comments

[fatoudust.livejournal.com]

Yay, MasterCook! We still love it and use it all the time. We need to redo our pantry though, we never have set it up properly since we moved in here. Bigger pantry! It does rock when you've got it all going, though.