New Toy

I got myself a Western Digital 160 GB Passport External Hard Drive.

I have named her Physeter Macrocephalus, because she can eat my old friend, the 20MB Archos MP3 Jukebox, aka Architeuthis Dux, for lunch. :)

Poor Architeuthis. I inherited him from my brother, who apparently never liked him. He was awesome! He carried around masses of music and I had him playing every day at the office for years. But his power supply got destroyed, then, when I tried to play him on USB, he started to get really hot and start freezing up. So I knew his time was coming.

I started shopping external hard drives because you get more storage space on them for a lot cheapter than you can get a media player type device of the same size. Physty will hold, like 45,000 pictures! Right now, she's loaded up with all my pictures, all the music I have ever ripped, all my word docs, including all my fiction and all the recipes on my computer, plus some miscellaneous stuff like the scans of my camp diary and the little movies I have made of the kids and stuff and junk. And 147 GB ARE STILL AVAILABLE!!!!

*pets Physty*

Physeter is 3x5 and in her little padded case she weighs about 4 ounces.

Today was her first day at the office. What I immediately realized was that she did not contain all the forbidden music!

So tonight, I hooked up Architeuthis. It was a sad, sad event. He would run for minutes, or even seconds at a time. I was able to get all the unique files transferred. The little bit of music on there could have been ripped again with only minor inconvenience, but the camp journal was living there and had been deleted everywhere else, so that would have been a big loss, since I would have had to scan the entire notebook again if I wanted it back.

Now I have put Architeuthis away. I am strangely reluctant to get rid of him.

For all you Costo members out there, Physeter Macrocephalus, with carrying case, is available in store for $109. Awesome deal! Though be forewarned that in the Costco packaging it comes with a USB cable about 8 inches long. *scowls* It is possible that if you bought it in the other packaging it would come with the 22" cable described in the quick start guide. *flips off the quick start guide*

If I could only make friends with Physty's synchronization software, I think I'd be set to go!

Little Sister is very naughty

Oh, Little Sister.

Little Sister likes to play in the cat water.

She knows she is not supposed to do this.

So tonight, I see her put her hand in the cat bowl and before I can grab her, she has put her hand in her mouth. *sigh*. So I get that hand, only to hear the other hand splashing like crazy in the water!!! So I'm cracking up laughing and grab that hand, so she starts shrieking with laughter and giggles as I drag her, hands held away from her mouth (and she was leaning trying to suck her fingers) around to where the paper towels are so I can rinse and dry her off.

As soon as she gets free...

She never made it to the cat bowl again tonight, but not for lack of trying.

One time, I set her down and she started over there and I said, "NO!!!" and she jumped, startled, then looked up at me with the hugest grin you can possibly imagine.

I have a little monster, don't I? And I can only assume I created her... (Shut up.) Heh. Whenever the pediatrician gives her a clean bill of health, he says, "Way to go, Dad!" Next time, I'm blaming Husband.

Also, she's become a right little begger in the car. AG33 eats his breakfast, usually a plastic bag of cereal and goldfish with his vitamins, on the road in the morning, then the leftovers as a snack on the way home. Little Sister holds out her little hand and says, "Mah?" Becoming louder and more demanding until he notices her and hands her something. Then she chuckles to herself. They grin and giggle back there, and she gurgles and talks to her food.

She has started making bludabludabluda noises. You have done this. Not a bronx cheer, but when you kind of open your mouth and stick out your tongue and waggle it against your open lips to make a rapid bludabludabluda type noise. She does that a lot. It's hilarious.

Uh, oh continues unabated.