SWTOR

The physical game came today. They have my account details, I have the game. Now to play, knowing I won't get booted tomorrow.

Yay!

Frivolous

And the purchases continue.
I got my leave loading for christmas, so I'm now spending it on things that I've wanted for some time but are now at a decent price;
1. A pod coffee machine (came with the milk frother and a bunch of pods included)
2. a terabyte plug & play back up device - I want to convert all those burned CDs of pictures over
3. a decibel meter (not a particularly good one, but its a nice toy)

Hmm, I'm sure there was something else other than the last of the christmas presents...I'll think of it later I expect.

The one thing I didn't get but would like to is a digital microscope (circa $100). I saw one but I wasn't too sure of the quality - it didn't look quite as good as one someone at work is using. They only go up to 400x (so no good definition of bacteria, but fine for larger structures). this one looked a bit like they had dodgy magnification. I'm told logitech makes one but I have yet to find it on the web, so the student may be talking through their hat. I'll keep looking.

Now, off to eat san choy bow sausages (also an impulse buy from our local award winner butcher)

Superfluous

When I first wanted to buy an ereader, I held off because I decided the sony version had more of the bells and whistles I wanted for reading and commenting on research articles. But it wasn't available, so I bought a kindle and generally loved it. Now sony has a new version out, with all the bells and whistles. So I bought it. The plan is to test it out for all those work things as well as rereading Andreas touchstone novels on it.
In my short reading of things so far I think that the kindle will be more useful for generic reading (I am suspicious that I'll be able to get a wider range of stuff as mobi files - unless its on smashwords of course) and the sony will be easier to make the sorts of impulse notes over documents that I want to make on my pdf's - and its touchscreen - glee!. The sony store in Australia is not yet up, so I have to download from my computer....but since that's what I do with the kindle anyway, its not a great loss.
Anyhoo, at some point if I'm diligent, I'll put up my personal pros and cons for the two. If it turns out that the sony does everything the kindle does just as well (including book variety), my little brother might get an unexpected kindle present.
For the people for whom the cover is important; I have a black kindle with blue case and a red Sony with red case - red goes faster, don't you know.

A book printed...just for me

I've been reading Andrea Host's books as ebooks & my favourite series just finished. I asked Andrea if there was going to be a hardcopy of the whole trilogy together & she organised one just for me...and now you too can buy the Jenny Edition.