cheap wireless card! and shoes. and a helmet.

i suddenly remembered that i meant to write a post, but i've been distracted by all sorts of things. so, in no particular order:

i just had the longest chat with my mother, about lawyers and apartments. i went to see a really shiny apartment this evening right next to the rabin square, at a too-good price for a place that really wouldn't need to be touched in order to make me happy.
it's rare to find a proper shower and decent floors, and enough space to swing a cat all in the same place.

it doesn't make the other place any less attractive, though, so i'm just going to have to pursue both. if only this evening's one wasn't so suspiciously too-good-to-be-true.

my mom made me laugh - i told her she doesn't need a really nice oversized flat-screen if she doesn't really watch movies.

i went past the gym earlier to pick up the kid's papers, and they'd only just sent it. i don't know just how useless/useful the woman was being, what she claims and what i heard don't match, so i'm not really in a position to judge.

my new flatmate got me hysterical this evening: i told her this morning that i was sad about them removing the sign, and she felt really bad. we had a long discussion about it and i really can't tell how serious she's being - she eventually made a sign so that i could take it off the door, and i was trying to explain that it just wouldn't be the same :P

i shopped this evening, for shoes for my new uniform and to use up sports points. so i tried on the shoes, decided they were comfortable... took them off, turned them upside down and showed the storekeeper that they weren't a matching pair. i don't know what gave it away, but after i saw the soles i began noticing the other differences: this is a bemused "thank you" to growing up in a shoe warehouse. they eventually found the other shoe.

i went to the sports store to use up credits, but they don't stock wheels for aggressive skating and i ended up buying wrist pads and a helmet. just in case.

scraps from the pda:

firstly, the pda itself is actually rather useful. i replaced the backup battery so it's not whining all the time, and the regular battery's pretty solid. the only problem left is the lack of wireless: the guy in the first store i went by told me that it's a rare thing to find (nowadays wireless is integrated) and the guy at the second store took a while to register that they didn't stock the right stuff.

so i got home, did some research... and bought a wireless card not for NIS 350 (between $80 and $100), but for just under NIS 80 (including shipping - $21.50 if i recall correctly). so i'm quite chuffed and i'll be able to check mail and blog and facebook from coffee shops now, because that's the only thing that's been keeping me from becoming properly antisocial.

notes:

on the way to the shops, i witnessed a guy lifting up his small child by its legs (with its back resting on his chest) next to a tree for a "squirt". this was a rather odd thing to view, and i immediately got paranoid about wind-direction and prayed that nothing made it to me :S

unfortunate reappraisal: about ten minutes before the end of the workday i arrived at the conclusion that i've been going about my current project all wrong.

we began the day setting up a stage, which was marginally entertaining. the walls of the hall are painted with shards of glass to keep everyone on their toes. and bleeding.

we went for a most civilized cup of coffee afterwards, and then arrived on base in time for lunch, so all in all it was a very well-handled morning. the only thing that would have been better is if my mom hadn't woken me up at 6am with an sms when i'd only gotten to sleep around 2. i love you mom!