Soon, I shall be travelling back to my apartment; after that, I will begin to actually write upon sections for my dissertation. It’s all coming together (I hope!).
In the after-Christmas time I have been with family, I have also been doing a bit of shopping of and for specific items and waiting until I could get good deals on them. For example, I needed more memory for my laptop, and waited until a $100 memory upgrade was an affordable $30 and got it. Now my laptop is a bit better off (Vista, I noticed, was dragging it down way too much; if I wanted to have Citation working with Word and all the virus-protection running in the background, the system memory was getting clogged and sometimes making the computer slow in its response to my commands).
Not everything has been as spectacular a deal as that. I recently bought Volume II of the Complete Segar Popeye Comics, and there was no sale price on it. It had just been released and so it is going to be awhile before it is on sale (if ever).
Max and Erma’s, a place I used to get some good vegetarian food, like a Portobello Mushroom Fajita, has changed their menu, and has only one real vegetarian entree left. It’s a new grilled vegetable sandwich, and it’s not as filling or as interesting as the fajitas. It’s disappointing how so many places which used to have a couple real good vegetarian dishes have started to drop them. At least I know my favorite ethnic cuisines won’t have this problem!
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