Randomness

[strange_complex]

1. Ah, I love summer rain. Which is good, as according to pretty much every weather report I've seen, it's going to carry on for the rest of our lives. Including to my cousin's wedding, which is happening in Folkestone not-this-Saturday-but-next. I bought a very lovely, if rather revealing dress - and to think I was worried about getting sunburnt! I might have to look for a matching umbrella.

2. Tomorrow morning, a man is bringing me a shiny new laptop! Hooray! I chose a mid-range one, on the basis that it's not intended to be my main computer, so it would be silly to go crazy with it. But it should still be rather exciting.

3. I have been trying to book opera tickets, but the Leeds Grand Theatre online booking service isn't working for me, and when I phone their so-called box office, all I get is an answerphone. Still, on the plus side, the guy they got to record their messages has a voice just like Christopher Lee. Yummy....

4. Update - and in fact just now while I was typing, they phoned me back, and the booking is all sorted now. Yay! #I'm going to see Michael Maniaci, I'm going to see Michael Maniaci!# Will mail people who are coming with details of the tickets shortly.

Comments

[strange-complex.livejournal.com]

Yes - it's not been so much scorching hot up here, but definitely oppressive. This is much-needed relief.

The laptop is a Dell - see comment below for a link to the particular one.

[superdus.livejournal.com]

Damn - I get a page not found error when I try that link, oops!

[strange-complex.livejournal.com]

Do you know, I've gone back to Dell's site and looked through it very carefully, and I think the reason for that is that they have actually stopped selling the laptop I've ordered since this morning! It was an Inspiron 640m, but that simply isn't appearing in their lists any more. How weird!

Anyway, it was a lot like the Inspiron 6400 (http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/inspn_6400?c=uk&cs=ukdhs1&l=en&s=dhs&~tab=rs_bundlestab), which they do still seem to be selling!

[superdus.livejournal.com]

Dell are strange! Maybe they just ran out of stock or something and it was an end-of-line special deal?

Looks fairly similar to my Tosh, what with being silver and widescreen and whatnot...

Enjoy :)