power surge

i slept badly last night. hayfever at its worst, with a 5am wake-up just to noisily get unstuffed enough to go back to sleep. that was harsh.

singer had to leave around 7.30am, and i began my mission to renew my license, obtain wood for carving and memory for my pc.
the license bit was relatively simple, but the foto-shop wasn't open yet so i went looking for wood. carpenters suck. i don't know if i'm an idiot for not knowing how to express what i wanted or if they're just as stupid as they came across. a bunch of self-important, impatient and unhelpful jerks, but that could just be because i was in the area that produces the lowest quality and least-inspired junk around.

pity i don't know where else to go. i accidentally bargained some guy down for a carpet that i didn't want to buy without flatmate approval, then returned to dizengoff center to place an order for the wood to spec (the art shop), speak to my tattoo artist, and get my license photo done.

i did some shopping on the way home, then went and bought myself another 512MB of RAM. i didn't know if it was compatible until i pressed the power button, and i couldn't recall the limitations of memory bank configurations, but i'm now running on 768MB and it is impressive.

i'm no less impressed at how well ubuntu's been managing with my measly 256, though. at least now the waiting time's been reduced to nothing.