don't you love it when you finally DO things?

I've been meaning to get a firewire cable for our camcorder for almost four years (ever since I got my current computer). At one point I asked M for one for my birthday and he never got around to figuring out which cable we needed and buying it ("just do the research and order it for yourself!").

So, dammit, I just did. And I had eleven bucks of leftover gift certificate from Amazon from goodness-knows-what, so it's not even costing that much (not that it was even that expensive to begin with).

Now we just have to hope my poor computer can handle it. Otherwise, my next purchase might be RAM. :^D

But soon, I will be able to annoy the world with movies of my excessively cute child.

ha!

LJ just warned me that my password might be too easy to guess.

Somehow I doubt it. I suppose it could be more secure, but I doubt that anybody's going to guess it.

Also: I wonder what proportion of "mood" indicators actually used on LJ are from the first 1/3 of the alphabet?

oh, for the love of all that is good and holy...

I love our house. Really I do. What I don't love is that the previous owners did lots of stuff on the cheap and the people we bought it from weren't the best about plumbing maintenance (we've already had to re-grout one tub and had a valve replaced on a toilet - and there's evidence that the grout problem had happened once before, since there's water damage at the exact location in the ceiling where I noticed the dripping that prompted the discovery of the grout-need).

The drain on our kitchen sink is leaking. It's the top join of the U-joint that's not water-tight. It's not a lot - just a drip. Fixing can probably wait until the weekend. But I foresee a trip to Lowe's plumbing department in my future. I don't know if the U-joint will have to be replaced or if there's some product that can be applied to water-tight the joint. Guess I'll find out this weekend. Good thing M will be home from San Diego and we'll have J & J here (for at least part of the weekend) so we'll have enough people to plumb AND to watch TRex.