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Mar. 22nd, 2014 10:35 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jazzfishLast weekend's lessons: 1) if you're going to drop your powered-on laptop, 'flat' is the worst way for it to land, as that causes the (non-SSD) hard drive to skip and throw a fit; 2) as long as the geniuses at the Apple Store don't actually have to *do* anything they're unlikely to charge you; 3) I now know how to enter 'recovery mode,' as distinct from 'safe mode,' in OSX; 4) always, always, always back up your data.
Total loss: about a day and a half worth of fiddling around with stuff, plus the cost of a chai at Starbucks. Could have been a lot worse.
The Veronica Mars movie was very good: snarky, character-driven, filled with shoutouts to the series but still (I think) comprehensible and amusing if you're a newcomer. As noted elseweb, it had too much Logan and not enough Wallace or Mac, but that's a flaw it shared with the series.
We've started looking at new apartments. No real winners yet. The lack of wallspace for bookshelves has, as expected, been a problem. Heat in Vancouver tends to come from baseboard radiators, rather than vents, and baseboard heaters and bookcases are mutually exclusive. Oh well.
One place looked extremely promising: sort of like our current place, only in a more interesting neighborhood (closer to transit, further from groceries and a place to run) and slightly smaller. Not quite as much cheaper as I'd like but definitely cheaper. Downsides: first, they wanted a 1 April move-in date, which is awkward since we have a lease through the end of May. Second, they have a couple of bright orange cabinets bolted to the wall in the living room at about head height. I mean, *bright* orange. Don't-shoot-me orange. I have either not enough design sense to appreciate this, or too much.
Happy spring, or something like that.
Total loss: about a day and a half worth of fiddling around with stuff, plus the cost of a chai at Starbucks. Could have been a lot worse.
The Veronica Mars movie was very good: snarky, character-driven, filled with shoutouts to the series but still (I think) comprehensible and amusing if you're a newcomer. As noted elseweb, it had too much Logan and not enough Wallace or Mac, but that's a flaw it shared with the series.
We've started looking at new apartments. No real winners yet. The lack of wallspace for bookshelves has, as expected, been a problem. Heat in Vancouver tends to come from baseboard radiators, rather than vents, and baseboard heaters and bookcases are mutually exclusive. Oh well.
One place looked extremely promising: sort of like our current place, only in a more interesting neighborhood (closer to transit, further from groceries and a place to run) and slightly smaller. Not quite as much cheaper as I'd like but definitely cheaper. Downsides: first, they wanted a 1 April move-in date, which is awkward since we have a lease through the end of May. Second, they have a couple of bright orange cabinets bolted to the wall in the living room at about head height. I mean, *bright* orange. Don't-shoot-me orange. I have either not enough design sense to appreciate this, or too much.
Happy spring, or something like that.
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Date: 2014-03-24 04:34 pm (UTC)Good luck with the apartment hunt! That is one of my least favorite things to do. (Which is probably why I've lived in my current apartment for over 13 years now!)
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Date: 2014-03-24 05:02 pm (UTC)I am seriously not enjoying the apartment hunt. Part of it's that we're picky (cats, walls for bookcases, closer to transit than our current place, near a downtown core of some kind), so we're not seeing a whole lot of good candidates to start with. More, though, it's that there's just no convenient place to find apartments. The DC area had ApartmentFinder.com which was a godsend. Here it's all fragmented, and so much of it's individual owners renting condos/basements that it's just impossible to track down.