How Messed Up Alison Is
Well, I mentioned that Alison had adhesions out the wazoo, right? Well, she also has the kind of tissue that is supposed to grow on the inside of her uterus growing on the outside and also has a ruptured fallopian tube. Oh, and she has to take this medicine that will make her sick to keep the microadenoma on her pituitary from growing into a real life tumor. But, she doesn't want to take the medicine, so she'd got an appt with a neurologist. Meanwhile, we still don't have the full dish on how messed up she is inside, really, since the doctor's staff didn't get him his postoperative notes for Alison's appointment. However, he did remember her when Alison reminded him that he had said that he'd never seen anything like it before. He did, however, forget who we are, basically, by asking her, again, "You aren't trying to have children, are you?" Uh, no, dumbass. Cause we can't. Sheesh.

Ralph Installed My New Computer
It's silver and has USB ports on the front and on the back. USB goodness means I can finally use my thumb drive that I got for Christmas. Where I felt I was getting it for a steal at $45 dollars, you can now buy that exact model for $35 at Wal-Mart, which traditionally overprices technology. Just compare the price of Compact Flash cards at Ebay and Wal-Mart.

Ralph didn't want me to take the picture because he was sweating. We're at that time of year when the HVAC systems really can't figure it out.

Sima CP-150?
It might be possible to, rather than buy a 512mb card for the 3500, get a portable device that can read cards and store it to it's own hard drive. Where I linked to one recently that was $250, this old n' busted type is probably going to only go for around $100 on Ebay. It's only 3.2 gigs, but that would be enough for me to take 6000+ pictures in China. Or, if I use my full 3.2 megapixels, about 3000 images.

The absolutely cheapest way to pull off the multiple pics in China thing is to get a very old and very busted Iomega Fotoshow. It's a 250mb Zip drive that has a card slot on it. It can read the card and store it to the disk. Disks cost about 1 cent per meg and the unit is about $30 to $40 off Ebay. However, after our vacation, I'd never use it again. Well, maybe on a different vacation.

- posted by Nick Postagulous @ 4:19 PM