i spent thursday morning searching through kijiji and found good leads on a television and on cassette holders. there weren't any bookcases in the size i wanted. i spent the afternoon walking up and down the strip on wyandotte, and did find a bookcase for bathroom and cleaning supplies. i spent the evening trying to negotiate a means of testing the tv i had a lead on, but it didn't go anywhere; insisting on an empirical test of a used electronic device was apparently too onerous for the seller, who i actually think was just retarded enough to be insulted by the insinuation. fucking small town midwestern christian dipshit mentality, right. the objective factual reality is that i don't know if it works until i test it, and if that hurts your feelings then you need to grow the fuck up. i managed to get the cassette holders, though, which is actually really important.
friday started a little later; the imbecile with the tv told me to email her in the morning, then didn't return messages. it's easy to draw conclusions that the tv didn't actually work, but i don't think it's actually true - i think she was just too stupid to work through the logic, and ended up with a bruised ego out of it, then decided i was rude. ugh. whatever. pro-tip: don't waste your life worrying about the feelings of idiots. so, i wasn't out until the afternoon. a lot of walking yielded nothing. and, when i sat down to eat i had to deal with the flash issue, which occupied my attention for the rest of the night. .
it was too cold (and it was a chilly dry cold, too) to go out last night. brrr. it was a little chilly on monday, but i think this is the first day this year that i stayed in because it was too cold. i hope we don't get a cold august. it's something that happens in canada sometimes, and it sucks when it does. you can end up with a solid week or two in mid august where the high is only around 20, and the overnights are close to ten :(. it's actually been a cold summer all around here in south detroit. i've got a bad feeling about this...
what have i done today? well, i spent the morning troubleshooting the playback problems. and i picked up my cases. the outstanding items are the phone, the laptop battery and the ps/2 connector and they should all arrive in the regular mail.
i don't have an optimal answer for the html5 workaround, yet, and will probably spend the rest of the weekend fighting with it. but, i've at least learned that the price of a used lcd tv is $50 and that i'm going to need to build my own shelves some time this week.
updated total:
airwalk shoes (payless): $33
bicycle repair (city cyclery): $23
3x40 gb ide hds (kijiji): $10
dell ultrasharp 1703 fp with dvi cables (kijiji): $20
two lamps, one table and one floor [kijiji]: $15
tape holders [kijiji]: $15
2x500 gb sshd laptop drives (best buy): $2x82
2 tb internal drive (best buy): $104
100 dvd-rs [best buy]: $30
50 bd-rs [best buy]: $45
2x2 gb laptop ram (amazon.ca): $2x15 + shipping, $47
8 gb sd ram for mp3 player (amazon.ca): $13
2 tb external drive (amazon.ca) : $123
50 cd-rs [amazon.ca]: $30
ps/2 to usb connector [amazon.ca]: $5
intel core i3-4710 [amazon.ca]: $243
atx mid tower [amazon.ca] - $52
asus p9d ws [amazon.ca]: $360
2x8 gb ddr3-1600 ram [amazon.ca]: $150
arctic silver [amazon.ca]:
450 joule surge protector (amazon.ca): $9
600 watt psu (amazon.ca): $80
700 joule surge protector (amazon.ca): $10
laptop battery (ebay): $26
2x4 gb laptop ram (ebay): $2x33
ip68 phone (ebay): $128
m-audio audiophile 2496 (ebay) [used]: $60
250 gb ssd drive (newegg.ca): $135
200 jewel cases (newegg.ca): $117
bathroom supplies (food basics, walmart, loblaws, shopper's): $296
ps/2 keyboard (axxon computer corporation, windsor): $23
usb mouse (walmart): $15
universal battery charger + aaa batteries (canadian tire): $54
stereo table: $34 (antique store)
cassette deck: $23 (antique store)
bookcase for bathroom supplies: $30 (antique store)
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