Stuff I got done today
1) Picked up a typing job. Legal forms for a lady who's got some kind of neurological condition and can't type.
2) Got something straightened out with my credit card company - apparently when you only use your card for craft supplies and the occasional meal and you suddenly drop the better part of $1000 in one day on computer stuff, it triggers some security concerns
3) Picked up my poor fried computer at the little local computer repair place. The guy who was handling the front of the desk (first time I saw someone other than the receptionist in there) waived the cost of the diagnostics, since the receptionist hadn't done an invoice. He also warned me, when I told him I was going to have to go to OfficeMax to get the data transferred over (because they tried to charge me the same amount for a 4 GB RAM, 550 GB memory Dell that OfficeMax was selling a 8 GB, 1 TB memory Dell for) he tried to convince me that he'd heard that they charge a lot for data transfers, over $200. Fortunately for me, I had already talked to OfficeMax and been quoted $90 to transfer files from both my computers onto the new machine, so I walked out with my comp.
4) OfficeMax was awesome! The guy opened up the dead comp and my mom's old comp, took a look and told me that he could just transfer the hard drive from the new machine rather than transfer the data. That took about 10 minutes to do, and not much longer to check and see that it was working just fine despite the fact that the motherboard in that machine was toast. Then they transferred the contents of Mom's old comp over while I went to lunch.
5) Olive Garden's Chicken Primavera with Giant Fusili is actually pretty good. Tomatoes, asparagus, peppers, onions, zucchini, etc. Yum. (Not usually a zucchini fan, but there wasn't a ton of it in there, so it was fine.)
6) Stop by Alltel to get pricing on a smartphone and data plan. Find out that a) their plan is okay and b) they'll be absorbed into AT&T soon.
7) Head back to OfficeMax. Perfect timing, they were just doing the final checks to make sure everything transferred over properly. Brought back the new comp and the hard drives from Mom's old comp, because yeah, don't really want to leave that laying around. Especially not when they said that they'd be cannibalizing the parts of the old comps for whatever they need. (That's fine with me, saves me the trouble of hauling them to someplace that does electronics recycling. I'm not sentimental about my computers, and it's still recycling - a more direct and efficient form at that.) Total price for the whole thing was less than $50.
8) Go to Walmart. Got an owl candle for my altar, plus some Sterno for next time the power goes out - froze my ass off during the ice storm, and eating stuff straight out of the can did not help. I wasn't about to go outside to cook on my grill when even inside the house was freezing cold! Also got some more information on smartphones & plans.
9) Ran some errands for the woman's club in preparation for the Relay for Life pageant we're putting on tomorrow.
10) new computer put back into its new place, and working perfectly! Now I need to do some serious cleaning to get rid of redundant files, etc.
So, plenty of stuff accomplished!