Pioneer Square is a historic district and is Seattle's oldest neighborhood. It's filled with a bunch of tiny independently owned stores (I love those kinda stores!) and cool little coffee joints. Here you can also find loads of antiques (which I'm not a big fan of) and old book stores. It's like an art infestation. I read somewhere that this place becomes alive during the night with live music and other good stuff but of course, we were there during the day. Another name Pioneer Square could take on would be 'homeless central'. There are bums EVERYWHERE so you really have to be aware and careful of your surroundings. I didn't feel threatened at all but I was a little irrated at the bothersome spongers constant spanging for spare-change. Don't get me started on panhandlers because I will most certainly give you an earful. I wanted to visit many of the coffee places and other cutesy stores but it was the last day we were there and we were EXHAUSTED from all the walking from the previous days. Regular walking is no big deal, but Seattle has some serious hills! We found ourselves walking up 45 degree angles quite a few times. Buns of steel! So I didn't get to go to some of the places that I had noted down. But it's no big deal. My trip to Seattle has been very satisfying nonetheless!
The bummiest one of them all!!!
See this sucker right there on the left? Well, I was finally forced to invest in an external hard drive after all these years. I work on a laptop at home and this really annoying bubble kept popping up at the bottom right corner of my screen saying that my memory was almost full and that I needed at least 200MB of free space for my computer to work efficiently. I kept closing the bubble hoping that it was just being dramatic but I was fighting a losing battle. I keep having this nervous feeling about storing all my important photos onto this thing. Am I supposed to trust that this contraption will keep my memories forever?!? And not crash and burn and lose everything?!? So of course I went ahead and burned all my pictures onto DVD's just in case. I had some serious trust issues with the external that the bf suggested that maybe I just get another hard drive. Back up the back up. I didn't go that far but maybe I should have. I moronically decided not to spend top dollar for my external and now I'm sorta regretting it. As I was transferring a huge load of photos the other night, it started making this loud clicking sound, as if it were struggling to get everything into it's system. So I just turned my music louder so that it muffled the clicking sound. My bf taught me that move. His car has been making this clanking noise and instead of getting it checked out, he just tells me to turn the volume up on the radio. Crazy guy. Hah! So that's the excitement that's beeng going on for me. Jealous? Here's an example of the amount of memory I'm using. Just this past December, I took 2,857 photos which totaled to about 6.56G worth of memory. It took two dvd's to burn all the pics I took in December. As for my recent trip to Seattle, I ended up taking AT LEAST 1,600 photos. Crazy girl. I don't know much about external's so please feel free to leave me a comment on what you know about them, particularly on the one I bought. Or leave me a comment on suggestions for other externals that you think are of better quality because I may decide to back up the back up.
2 months ago