Sometimes one place wants to slip into the other just to see...

Today has been somewhat bizarre. Beka and I went to go see if there was anything Best Buy could do about my computer, and Jae came along so she could get some food with us. And... turned out we'd have to send the laptop out to get it fixed, and Jae, hearing that, decided to call and see if there was anything Tim could do to at least get some stuff off my hard drive before the laptop got sent away. Tim being... Tamora Pierce's spouse-creature.

So we abruptly decided to take a trip to Syracuse. There was a trip to the Best Buy up there, as Tim tried to see what he could work out, and there wasn't really anything to be done there either, but I at least got loaned a spare laptop to use until Gwen returns. And I got to meet Tammy's amazing herd of cats, and we watched Dr. Horrible with her and sang along and wow, today has been interesting.

The drive up to Syracuse was awesome, because there was the sunset and awesome storm clouds the color of a battleship and mountains and autumn and everything and it was just gorgeous. I kind of thought we might die on the way back, but (obviously) we did not.

I just may have to crash very soon, because I am exhausted. In a good way, though. Tomorrow, we acquire a storage unit so we can get rid of the trailer until we know where we're living - we may actually be looking for a place to stay in Syracuse temporarily until the college students in Ithaca move out for the semester and GIVE US SOMEWHERE TO LIVE.

...but there's ridiculous anime on and I don't want to go to sleep yet. Damn it.

And it tried to pack up its Miata, all it could fit was a prayer...

I forgot to mention this yesterday in all the flail and "what?", but while we were driving up to Syracuse, we stopped at a gas station and totally saw Ancient Cy. She was like human!Cy, with the white hair and black trenchcoat and all, but older than Cy's human form. For a little while, Jae and I didn't want her to turn around because we were afraid she'd be a grouchy old lady and ruin it, but then she turned around when we were debating whether or not the gas thingy would be able to reach the car, and apparently found us hilarious. It was awesome.

Dropped Gwen off at Best Buy today. I had them retrieve the data off her hard drive and put it on my brand new external hard drive (who is named Tosh), so I should have that, at least, in a few days. Gwen may not be back for one to two weeks. *Tinyflail* I'm a bit spazzy about sending her away, but I will have all my stuff unless something goes catastrophically wrong (I'm most worried about my music and my OaS plot outline), and if they can't fix her they'll replace her, so there's really nothing to worry about, I just... meh.

And Beka got me a netbook for my birthday. Technically it's both of ours, and I wasn't really expecting a birthday present anyway, but it was relatively cheap and a small thing that we can tote around and use for writing is nice, because Gwen is pretty damn huge as laptops go. She is pink, which normally I would mind, but don't so much since I'm sharing it with Beka. And she does not have a name yet.

I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW WHY THE FIREFOX ON THE LAPTOP TIM LOANED ME KEEPS CRASHING. RANDOMLY. It's not like I have any add-ons, or am even loading pages when it crashes... it just does. It was not doing this last night. *Frown* (EDIT: Okay, never mind. I restarted the computer and it's fine. Pretend that didn't happen.)

TOMORROW. We are finding a storage unit and getting rid of the damn trailer if it kills us, and we are looking for more apartments. Probably in Syracuse. BAH, why is this such an epic quest? I JUST WANT A PLACE TO LIVE. And to give Caroline back her space, because I feel really bad about that.