Archives: September 2008

Stuff I want

Not surprisingly, I want more stuff. I have money that I shouldn’t spend but I want more stuff.

  1. Nintendo DSi
  2. DS Slot 1 Backup card
  3. GPS for my camera
  4. a netbook: a MSI Wind or whatever. I’d prefer higher resolutions but… the HP one sucks
  5. Thinkpad W500 – Lenovo made a very nice upgrade to the T61p. My T60p is not hardly what I was looking for. It doesn’t have anything better than VGA out, not that I use that feature much. It doesn’t have a WUXGA screen (the new one doesn’t have a IPS screen either. Ironic that my fucking cell phone is the first and only IPS device I have ever owned.) The video card isn’t quite strong enough.
  6. Desktop computer and new IPS monitor

I sure will be poor after I get home. I still haven’t decided IF I will upgrade my lenses. And I sure as hell won’t really need a new Thinkpad. But the thought of my primary notebook being of such a low resolution kills me.

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Mount Fuji

So I took a trip to Mt. Fuji during Obon. I’ve wanted to climb this mountain since my first trip to Japan. It was too cold and inconvenient then. This time, I was ready and prepared. That didn’t stop me from getting really really sick. I wound up staying at the hospital in Yamanashi Prefecture during my Obon trip. Two days and nights with IV for fluids and IV antibiotics. My first real stay in a hospital. Trip: ruined.

I decide to try again. This time without a travel crew as I had to take some vacation days. I fuck up majorly and wind up blowing $120 on a taxi to complete the climb. But complete it I did. It was harder than I expected. There isn’t much oxygen up there and there was no time to get acclimated so it is pretty tough. And the distance is pretty great, vertically. Got some sunrise photos. The downhill was brutal on my knees. I couldn’t go fast. Love having trekking poles.

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