Zathras' Great Machine

Day Two of a quiet three day weekend

A quiet, cold, dank, grey, and wet weekend, I should say.

Saw "The Matrix: Reloaded" yesterday and was pretty disappointed. It has its moments, but not many of them, and it's certainly nowhere near as good as the first film was. (Especially bad point, from fairly early in the film: Zion, the last remaining city far underneath the surface, is going to be attacked by 250,000 squiddies in less than three days, so what do they do? They have a rave, of course.)

I got approval to move to another cubicle at the office, one that's quieter and more secluded, so I spent a few hours yesterday doing most of the moving. I'll probably finish that up tomorrow.

I received a promotional flyer in the snail mail yesterday for the Giant grocery store's online ordering and delivery service. I last looked at this about a year or so ago and was not impressed with the selection vis-a-vis the selection actually available in the store. On a lark, I took another look today, and it appears they've expanded it quite a bit. Between that and the twenty dollar discount for the first order, I've decided to take a stab at it and see how it goes. My first delivery is on Tuesday night.

I had to place the order with Internet Explorer, though -- Safari had yet another glitch in the site's JavaScript, and it couldn't process the order (it said my shopping cart was empty when it most definitely wasn't, a problem that I've had before). I also have to use Explorer for my online banking. I haven't tried Mozilla yet, which is Denise's recommendation. Maybe I'll download that tonight and have a look at it. Sez Denise: "Yaaaaaaaay!"

I have to say that my overall experience with OS X and its bundled apps has been pretty disappointing so far in quite a few ways. I'm not going to be in the market for a new notebook for at least another year, but when I start shopping again, I may be moving to Linux or even -- shudder -- Windows.