Celebration and evaluation
Jan. 10th, 2004 11:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
onefixedstarI went back to RH today for my grandfather's 75th birthday party. Most of the family was there, minus the usual out-of-town suspects (my father, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
steninja, semiotic_trader, and a_just_society). It was a surprise party, and my poor grandmother was nearly driven crazy trying to plan it. Every time she tried to make arrangments over the phone, my grandfather would follow her around the apartment listening to the conversation. Every time she tried to go out alone to buy things for the party, he'd insist on coming. The whole thing was made one hundred times worse by the fact that my grandmother is a horrible liar and naturally given to worrying about everything (she stayed up until 3am one morning worrying about how to tell my uncle that she didn't want to go to the restaurant he suggested). But it went well and he was surprised and not it's over, so she can relax. Or at least find something else to worry about.
I got a copy of OneNote today (yes, yes, I know, Microsoft is the Evil Empire). So far I quite like it--the interface is very intuitive (at least for people such as myself who were raised on Microsoft products) and it does a nice job of giving lots of loosely-related notes and lists some semblance of order. As an inveterate list-maker, I really appreciate that feature. I also really like the idea of the recording/note-taking feature--yet another reason to buy a laptop.
Okay, back to work for a little longer, and then off to bed. MacGuy and I are planning an Ikea run tomorrow morning; yay furniture!
steninja, semiotic_trader, and a_just_society). It was a surprise party, and my poor grandmother was nearly driven crazy trying to plan it. Every time she tried to make arrangments over the phone, my grandfather would follow her around the apartment listening to the conversation. Every time she tried to go out alone to buy things for the party, he'd insist on coming. The whole thing was made one hundred times worse by the fact that my grandmother is a horrible liar and naturally given to worrying about everything (she stayed up until 3am one morning worrying about how to tell my uncle that she didn't want to go to the restaurant he suggested). But it went well and he was surprised and not it's over, so she can relax. Or at least find something else to worry about.I got a copy of OneNote today (yes, yes, I know, Microsoft is the Evil Empire). So far I quite like it--the interface is very intuitive (at least for people such as myself who were raised on Microsoft products) and it does a nice job of giving lots of loosely-related notes and lists some semblance of order. As an inveterate list-maker, I really appreciate that feature. I also really like the idea of the recording/note-taking feature--yet another reason to buy a laptop.
Okay, back to work for a little longer, and then off to bed. MacGuy and I are planning an Ikea run tomorrow morning; yay furniture!
