Our traveling laptop has arrived! A brand new Dell Vostro 1500 with international wireless capabilitie, a 15-inch widescreen, 85 hour battery, Windows XP (no Windows Vista troubles for us, thank you very much), NVIDIA FeForce 8600 GT graphic card goodness, and various other treats.
We have named the laptop Stowaway, and it will provide us with means to hopefully do a little freelance work, keep up with our personal professional development projects - of which there are several, act as mobile entertainment for rainy days, and provide video games for evenings where we just can't handle going out for more discovering and would rather huddle around the warm glow of the LCD screen.
It has already been loaded up with the necessary firewalls and anti-viruses, and of course with the all-important World of Warcraft. Now we must decide how to ration the precious hard drive space and what other programs need to go on there. Glen needs his graphic design programs, whereas my requirements are a little less resource-heavy. I need a word processor and the NeverWinter Nights Aurora Toolset for game development. Hopefully our new beastie can handle such demands.
Our date of departure is edging ever nearer. We've encountered some rather unexpected costs in the past couple of weeks that I am not entirely happy about, namely certain dental procedures that my dental insurance and benefits do not cover. At least our teeth will be relatively healthy and patched-up for the trip.
The first week of September will be a flurry of activity - both Glen and I will have finished work and are going to be spending regular business hours running around and getting our personal affairs in order. We need to change our car insurance to basic 'parking' type coverage, change our cell phone plans to a contract maintenance scheme as there is no point in paying for a phone plan that we cannot use for the next year, get our driver's licenses updated, move our possessions into storage (god bless parents with warehouses!), and run various other tasks.
Wish us luck, it is going to be a busy couple of weeks!
Friday, August 24, 2007
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