Travels with Ruby: Thursday before Loscon

[mdlbear]

So here we are at the LAX Marriott. I couldn't get the wired internet connection in the room to work; the wireless sucks rocks but it's better than nothing. I'll bug the hotel in the morning.

I've already bugged the hotel about the lack of an outlet near the bed for the facehugger: they sent up a bloke with a power strip, extension cord, and what sounded like an Aussie accent. I can haz facehuggr now. The Wofling has just put herself to bed. She very sensibly brought an air mattress this time (sharing a bed with her little sister is Right Out).

The trip, down US 101, was uneventful. It's much prettier than I5 and the traffic is consistently less (though it was heavier this year than I've seen it in the last decade of Loscons). About 7:30 including the break for lunch at Pea Soup Anderson's.

Annoyingly, I snapped off a fingernail unloading the car. Even more annoyingly, it was the right forefinger, which is what I use most for fingerpicking. And of course there's no superglue -- I forgot to pack it. Could have used it to extend the stub a fraction. I can get by, though. Won't sound quite as clear, but the difference is surprisingly slight.

The flower_cat, chaoswolf, and I had dinner with AJA and Kore; I hadn't really had much of a conversation with K before, so that was good. There was enough discussion of CD production and related matters that I figured I could treat it as a business expense. The Y.D. joined us briefly for desert; she'd already had dinner up in the Con Suite.

I should probably go to bed soon.

Comments

[mdlbear]

These days even the low-end (sub-$750) laptops have 64-bit dual-core CPUs and 80GB of disk. Add more RAM and you're good to go.

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

*nods* While I was writing that I spec'ed a Dell 520n with 1GB RAM and the faster hard drive for something around $830. And that was with the hi-res screen, too.

Or better, a Dell 1501 with a dual-core Athlon for $711... only problem I have with that is it doesn't come in an "n" model. Or with the 7200rpm HDD.

[mdlbear]

The N models tend to be the older ones (i.e. that won't run Vista). Grump. Ran into that problem when I went to get the Y.D. and XP machine.