Jonbu the baker

I’ve been trying hard not to spend any big money since I came back. (no job, no money)+(this is the reality, no jumping out of it this time). But its HARD!
It’s hard to live with nothing new to play with. Or I just haven’t found something new and affordable, (like linux, maybe. it’s always new and always free). Today tho, I found a windows implementation of Apple’s Exposé: WinPlosion. It doesn’t look as nice as Exposé, and there’s this flash right before the animated sliding/zooming out that kind of bugs me. Feels like the program is trying to trick me. Very sly.
Anyways I had fun with it for a few moments and now I’m back into searching for more stuff to play with. Someone I knew once called his PowerBook a “new toy”. Very dangerous concept if I start thinking that way. I need a new toy.
What single item on earth would provide the same excitement as a new laptop, and costs way less? Of course a laptop to you may provide nothing more than headaches+boredom. An AiBO could cost less.. But they’re probably very stupid once you get to know them. I’ve met a few in Ginza.

Off the tech stuff, my cousin + her husband is holding their wedding/ house party on Halloween night. Pretty unorthodox eh? So in between the drinking and what not, kids are going to be knocking on their doors for candies. I of course will try to be there.