geeking delivery

I'm at a friend's house, installing software and talking html, I sure hope the new bathtub will be installed when I get home.

I will not write here how rarely I have showered in the past two and a half weeks since the old space-eating chipped bathtub left my apartment. Suffice it to say the number of times fits on one hand. Add to this the permanent layer of dust covering everything, like living in the middle of a snow-white desert, thin dust which is now engrained in my skin, my apartment and I are becoming one, I have been breathing enough of its paint vapours, even with the windows open at night, that I am becoming an apartment borg !

can't wait to soak.

I might just have to buck down and go to the gym.

the shower will be imperative tomorrow, I don't really care what my coworkers think, but tomorrow evening I am invited to a soirée, and it would be good policy on the singlehood front to appear presentable.

which brings me to the laundry I should have done tonight, sigh ! I am currently laundromat dependent, like in the first months I arrived in paris, almost exactly 8 years ago, it's a bit nostalgic, not nearly as inconvinient and time-consuming as I had remembered (maybe because I know it's temporary), they now have a change machine in the place.

I cannot complain, all of the above, in addition to my personal space being inhabited by strange pakistani men (arriving somtimes before 8 am!), is worth it when I look at the apartment, and I see it improve, albeit slowly, it is much better than what I had imagined back when I had decided to buy.

hitech wonders

so here I am, moving along the big highway in the sky... been talking more and more on skype to my friends near and far, actually for the moment I just write, the microphone is in one of the many unopened boxes adorning my apartment.... in some cases my friends talk and I write, it is a strange feeling, as if I had lost my voice, and I can't type nearly fast enough.

Last night I installed the tnt receiver on my computer, tnt is digital tv over ether, I can now watch tv on the computer, and it is of amazingly good quality, and full screen ! These kind of things can't stop amazing me.

OK, I admit it, I am a geek, a card carrying one at that (just got it in the mail from the french govt, I'll put up a picture of it as soon as I figure out how to transfer photographs from my new phone to the computer). Ah ! And this is another one ! My phone takes good quality pictures ! and it cost only 9 euros ! they throw technology at you these days, trying to convince you to use all the extra things you thought you could live without, but now that I can take pictures with my phone I want to send them too, and that costs extra...

next: how high tech helped my newbe house decorating efforts.....