I think this is cold!
It’s been a bit chilly here in San Diego the past week. Not sure why, but it’s been a bit chilly to want to hang outside. Listen to me – now I think that 63 and sunny is too chilly! I think that it’s COLD when it’s 56 and cloudy. I’ve lost my mind. But seriously, it gets kind of cold if it’s breezy, which it usually is after lunchtime. I was looking at the observed temperatures for this past week over at weather.com and yeah, to me a week of sub 60 temperatures is COLD. I guess it’s proof that I’m now a San Diegan.
I finally have my voice back today. Well, not completely. Some of my range still comes out as no sound, but it’s 75% back to normal. I sounded absolutely awful since Saturday, and my voice was cracking on every word. Plus, my right ear somehow got clogged and it wouldn’t drain. So I went back to the doctors and got the usual round of antibiotics again. This is a bit ridiculous – antibiotics three times within 3-4 months? Oh well. At least I’m getting better. I’m going to have to become one of those people who uses Purell every 5 minutes because I apparently have the immune system of a little baby. Sigh.
Dell U2410 Monitor
In other news, my new computer came! It’s a beast. I had to get a monitor separately, but I’m not sure I’m too happy with it. I got the Dell u2410. It’s a pricey monitor, but I wanted something that would be business quality and able to be useful for graphic design. Well, it’s great except for one thing – there is this horrendous anti-glare coating on the screen that makes it look so grainy. To me it looks awful, and maybe it’s just my eyes but I feel like I go crosseyed when I try to read text on the screen. It’s hard to describe, but it causes white backgrounds to have a prism quality, kind of similar to what you see on a TV screen if you sprayed it with a mist of water. It reflects the little LCD pixels in slightly different directions so you see itsy-bitsy specks of red, green, and blue. I mean, they are really itsy – you can’t pinpoint one really, but you can still see them as a mist. Sadly I might have to return it to Dell and get a different monitor, probably with a glossy screen. My laptop doesn’t have a glossy screen – it’s matte but it doesn’t have this problem. I’ll give it another day and do some more research on alternate monitor options.
I’ve been feeling a bit listless these past few weeks. I just feel off-track, like I’m not going anywhere. I guess I need a challenge; I need to be creative. That’s the tough thing about doing internet marketing…I’m a bit bored with it and it’s been a bit monotonous lately. I really need a goal to spur me right now – something to accomplish. I’m not sure what that is yet, but I need to take some time to think about it. I guess I just feel that writing websites about computer software and other stuff is just not very fulfilling. Or maybe it’s just that I’ve been sick and sitting on my butt. But I’ve just been a little…bored I guess. It’s weird to say I’ve been bored, because I’ve been doing all sorts of fun stuff with my friends here. But in my down time I feel very directionless and frustrated for some reason. I had a strange but very vivid dream the other night that might offer an explanation; I was on the Olympic Women’s Ice Hockey team (don’t ask me why, I’ve never played ice hockey in my life…I’ve never even held a hockey stick and worn skates at the same time) and I was stuck on the sidelines. I felt like I had all this talent and skill and I wanted to get in there and shoot a goal, but the coach (who was played by, in an amazing amount of randomness, my gym teacher from high school) wouldn’t put me in the game! I guess this just goes to show that I feel like I want to do something significant. I’ve always had that desire – to do something really significant.
Anyway, I’m gonna do a bit of soul searching and figure out a project or a goal that I can work on. I’ll still be doing my usual job, but I really need something that I’m passionate about. I’m just not sure what that is yet.