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[jessybxx]

The heating is dead. Repair guy will come tomorrow. It's cold everywhere except in the dining room where we have a good old wood-eating fireplace. I think dad has actually moved there now.
Mum's at choir practice, dad and I made some mulled wine to stay warm.
And now, I'm huddled in bed with Kan-chan to watch some SG-A.
Max is still downloading some stuff for me but since he's a big computer (and since I just shut off the Vista standby option that put him to sleep after just one hour ^_^;;;), he can do it alone.

What else...

Oh yeah. I found out that I don't need the Ultimate edition of Vista since the additional stuff it contains is just programs I can't even name let alone have any use for. What I need is just Home Premium (Home Basic actually lacks the pretteh Aero Glass surface which makes it pretty worthless and hardly different compared to XP =_=).
A System Builder copy of Vista Home Premium that would cost me 119 Euros. And I'm talking about a GB one. Yes, my favourite PC online shop actually sells British copies of Windows for the same price as the German ones. How would Borat put it? "Wow wowie wow" =)

I'm also thinking of giving Max a second GB of RAM for Xmas. It makes sense since he might very well be running Vista for the rest of his life and that eats up a shitload of memory.

Comments

[screwthedaisies.livejournal.com]

Brrr. I hope the repair guy gets there early and gets done quick.

One year our heat went out on Christmas Eve and we didn't get it fixed till January 7th. We borrowed space heaters from the neighbors to keep the pipes from freezing, moved a mattress and lots and lots of blankets into the room that had the fireplace, and basically wore half our wardrobes day and night.

[jessybxx.livejournal.com]

OMG, more than two weeks without heating O_O
On the other hand, I'm childish and tend to consider situations like that adventures so I dunno how I'd react if that happened to us ^_^;;;