James Sapara’s Personal Blog

Well it’s been just over a month since I decided I could do without TV. I will admit to occasionally watching a few minutes of the news a few times and stopping to watch what’s on when my roommate was watching. For the most part, I’m not missing it. What I’m disappointed with is how live replaced some of that TV time with playing video games. I think my next challenge will be to limit video game playing more so and replace it with more reading (which I’ve done a lot of this month) and some more writing. Spring is nearly here, so I imagine I’ll be getting back into running as well.

Turns out the new FireFox Beta has a fat back button. I often find changing UI’s that have been static for a long time bad. I consider the re-learning to be a disadvantage; but, using Fitt’s law you discover that new people to the UI are initially faster. You also discover that the learning time is small compared to the marginally higher success rate of hitting the button. *shrug* Go figure.

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I got my revised schedule of extras and upgrades last week, which now includes the additional cost of the electrical and plumbing work. I was pleasantly surprised by the total cost for both being $1375.00. Much less than I was lead to believe and much more in the range of cost I had imagined it would be.

A few weeks ago I also bought a dishwasher: Kenmore Elite 24″ TURBOZONE III Fully Integrated Design Tall Tub Dishwasher

Matches all the other appliances. All I need now is a place to put them in… haha.

So I’ve been accumulating the parts for my car computer. I had to special order the dash piece for my car from Taiwan. Around the same time I ordered a really cheap LCD for the computer. This is a quick write up comparing the two items shipping…

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