Computer stuff in Long Beach
Mar. 10th, 2026 12:18 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
silver_chipmunkGot up this morning and had coffee and showered and dressed. mashfanficchick got up after me and we left for zer eye doctor appointment in Long Beach. We took the subway to Jamaica and the LIRR from there.
While we were in the waiting room, there was an adorable almost-toddler 9 month old baby girl with her mother and we had a lot of fun watching her and talking to the mother.
After zer appointment was over we had time before my HP computer call back was supposed to happen, so we got lunch at a poke and ramen place. I had a poke bowl an ze had ramen.
We went to the library and enquired about a private room but that was unavailable. The library was so quiet that we felt it would be wrong to do the call back there, so we went to Starbucks. We staked out a table and set up, only to discover I'd not heard my phone ring and missed the callback.
I called HP and got someone, and they looked up my case and we got back to work again only to be stymied by the need for a flash drive.
mashfanficchick went out in search of one, and eventually found one bigger than we needed and quite expensive. I called HP back, an after we argued with an AI for some time, got through to a human. We started trying to do a system reset, and couldn't. first because there wasn't enough room in the computer, and then when we tried a different method, it kept crashing. So we broke for the day, next call back is Thursday at 2:00.
So we left Starbucks, having only bought one vente iced lavender latte, which we shared, because I needed to buy something to get the restroom code.
We went to Stop and Shoop across the street, and did some shopping. I got a loaf of Irish soda bread. Then we went to the train station and missed the train by about 2 minutes.
SO since the next one didn't leave for quite some time, and it was late, we had dinner at an Italian restaurant. I had a mushroom risotto. It was delicious.
Then we got the train back to Jamaica and then the 44 bus from there. Ze got off at Union Tpk and took the 46 from there, I went back to my stop and came home.
I found a Funko Pop waiting for me, and at first hope soared that it was one or the other of the Stephen Colberts. But it wasn't, it was the derpy tiger from K-Pop Demon Hunters that I had ordered. I didn't even know it had shipped.
I fed the pets, then Teamed the FWiB from my phone. We talked for about an hour, then got off.
I moved the boxes of the Kid's stuff from the kitchen to the hall, in preparation for RK taking them and me to the storage unit tomorrow.
Then I set up the computer and started here.
Gratitude List:
1. The FWiB.
2. Gorgeous weather.
3. Cute little girl.
4. Good lunch and dinner.
5. The boxes were easier to move than I expected.
6. RK.
mashfanficchick got up after me and we left for zer eye doctor appointment in Long Beach. We took the subway to Jamaica and the LIRR from there.While we were in the waiting room, there was an adorable almost-toddler 9 month old baby girl with her mother and we had a lot of fun watching her and talking to the mother.
After zer appointment was over we had time before my HP computer call back was supposed to happen, so we got lunch at a poke and ramen place. I had a poke bowl an ze had ramen.
We went to the library and enquired about a private room but that was unavailable. The library was so quiet that we felt it would be wrong to do the call back there, so we went to Starbucks. We staked out a table and set up, only to discover I'd not heard my phone ring and missed the callback.
I called HP and got someone, and they looked up my case and we got back to work again only to be stymied by the need for a flash drive.
mashfanficchick went out in search of one, and eventually found one bigger than we needed and quite expensive. I called HP back, an after we argued with an AI for some time, got through to a human. We started trying to do a system reset, and couldn't. first because there wasn't enough room in the computer, and then when we tried a different method, it kept crashing. So we broke for the day, next call back is Thursday at 2:00.So we left Starbucks, having only bought one vente iced lavender latte, which we shared, because I needed to buy something to get the restroom code.
We went to Stop and Shoop across the street, and did some shopping. I got a loaf of Irish soda bread. Then we went to the train station and missed the train by about 2 minutes.
SO since the next one didn't leave for quite some time, and it was late, we had dinner at an Italian restaurant. I had a mushroom risotto. It was delicious.
Then we got the train back to Jamaica and then the 44 bus from there. Ze got off at Union Tpk and took the 46 from there, I went back to my stop and came home.
I found a Funko Pop waiting for me, and at first hope soared that it was one or the other of the Stephen Colberts. But it wasn't, it was the derpy tiger from K-Pop Demon Hunters that I had ordered. I didn't even know it had shipped.
I fed the pets, then Teamed the FWiB from my phone. We talked for about an hour, then got off.
I moved the boxes of the Kid's stuff from the kitchen to the hall, in preparation for RK taking them and me to the storage unit tomorrow.
Then I set up the computer and started here.
Gratitude List:
1. The FWiB.
2. Gorgeous weather.
3. Cute little girl.
4. Good lunch and dinner.
5. The boxes were easier to move than I expected.
6. RK.
