Welcome to the Country
So, this weekend I am visiting Cas. If you’ve been a reader long enough you’ll know that Cas is one of my old mate’s from my time served at Liverpool University (ljmu) and he lives in Lincolnshire.
A good few weeks ago I was sat at work, and I got a phonecall, from a number I didn’t recognise. I answered. “Is that Boycie?”.
It’d been a while since I’d been called that I thought, but “Erm.. Yeah it is..” I replied curiously. “Alright man. It’s Cas..” he said. He then went on to explain his predicament which had left him with a ¬£1000 voucher for PC World, and 5 IBM Tablet PCs.. Not the worst of Predicaments. So I agreed to come help him spend money and setup tablet pcs, and a few weeks later.. Here I am. I guess I’ll start from, well, the start…
Day One
I finished work on the Friday (which I guess would be day zero!) at the usual time, and got the train home, getting back for around 1900. Cas was working until 0000, and was going to let me know his plan then. At 0300 I feel asleep after speaking to Cas and he reported he was coming to get me that night.
At 0500 I was awoken from my slumber by Cas informing me had arrived at my house. By 0530 we were back on the road, en route to Lincolnshire. Our final destination; Sibsey, Northlands.
After what was probably a 3h-3h30m drive, we had eaten a McDonald’s breakfast and arrived back at Cas’ house.
At 1030 we decided the best plan of action would be to get a 2h nap, then set off for PC World at 1200. We both set two alarms, and hit our respective sacks, ready for a long day ahead.
At 1130 Louise woke me up, as she had woken up and wanted to ring me. I didn’t feel that tired, but still though the idea of taking the full advantage of the remaining half an hour I had in bed until my alarms starting going off seemed far too good to miss.
I remember hearing the alarms go off, for the most part. Regardless of this, I woke up at 1700 and we managed to rush to PC World which closed at 1800 and make the required purchases. We left with a TomTom One XL, an Acer Media Center PC and a Packard Bell baseunit (that will be acting as a fileserver). By 2100 we were back at Cas’ house, terminal pcs and new hardware in hand. It’s now 0215 and I’m still going - but for how much longer I don’t know. Think I’ll probably call it a day soon and get up early tomorrow so we can get USB Wireless Jobbys for the Terminals, and some XP Tablet-age for them too. After that it should be plain sailing!
Stay tuned for day two…. Oh yeah, and one thing I didn’t mention is that I’m writing this blog from by brand new shiny white Macbook! I am definately a self-confessed fanboy now! OS X FTW! I shall comment more when I’m back home.
Day Two
So much for getting up early. 1130. Damn. So I rushed out of bed, and we continued to rush onto PC World to get more bits and bobs. We just about managed to get a terminal running xp and we had to set off for home. Long drive ahead.. Made longer by the fact that about half an hour in I realised I had forgotten my MacBook charger.. Disaster! We got back to Manchester at about 1900, and Cas had to shoot straight off as he was driving to London tonight too. Good weekend, and I’m sure we’ll be doing it again.