Best Buy report

I went to the Best Buy to exchange the CD player my Dad gave me for my birthday. He had given the slip to me with it, since he admitted he wasn't sure if it was the kind I'd really wanted. He found a "retro" style 3-CD changer that included a turntable. This was very cool -- but unfortunately did not also include a tape player.

I have more cassettes than vinyl, so I said thank you but that I would exchange it. Also it had a cherry-wood that I for some reason didn't really groove on.

( True Confession time )

So I returned the CD+record player and got me a CD+tape player. They don't sell any that are just RADIO + TAPE -- that's really all I wanted. Ah well. I checked online and there was a nice enough one with all the features I'd decided I wanted: remote control, radio, tape, bonus for multiple CDs -- which was even $30 cheaper than the CD+record player one. I could put the extra store-credit towards the new telephone I planned to also pick up!

But, once I was actually there, I succumbed to the "gift-certificate" trap. I bought a more expensive one than what I should have got, just because I could subtract the pre-paid for portion out and say "but look at all I'm getting but only paying $30 for!"

For my extra $30 (or $60 if you look at it that way), I got:

2 more CDs (5-CD changer vs 3) which I don't really care about;

the very nice feature that the currently-playing CD is not interruped if you want to change a non-playing CD; likewise, I can open & close the CD drawers even when the player is in non-CD mode (always annoys me when I can't) and

the one that sold me: DIGITAL readout of the current radio station's frequency.

And two phones. Meaning my landline is now functional. (Junker of a cordless I was using before shall be firmly retired to the trash where it long since belongs grrrrr)

electrician report

woo!

The electrician guy stopped by today, at 6, as promised. I showed him where I want the overhead light & outlet installed in the pre-kitchen, and he'll be back tomorrow to do it!

I asked him, and he said he'd put in a second outlet by the counters on the other side of the wall too, even though I let him know I hadn't run that one by Landlord Sean yet to make sure he'd pay for it. I wimped out from ALSO asking for also-not-preapproved second light-switch in the back room. (There are two doors, but the switch is only near one. It's OK -- I can walk in the dark the 3 feet necessary.)

Yay lighting! Yay electricians! yay Sean arranged this (and is paying for it) :-)

UPDATE: March 2: Electrician came. Installed both outlets, swapped light switch, and installed an overhead fixture. He told me he'd OK'd them all by Sean. It was engaging to watch a competant professional work. I don't know if the timing was accidental or not, but while the electrician (a friend of the family) was here, Maurice, the landlord's dad, stopped in to give me the back door key I'd been missing. The two of them picked on each other a bit, which I enjoyed -- electrician could give back as good as he got (which I'm always afraid to do with the landlord), and I could tell Maurice was having fun by his big suppressed grin -- reassuring to know he has a sense of humor.

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yipes! it's wednesday today! ggt leyning class!!!!