Nickled, dimed, and quartered

[serenissima]

Well, I was a bit hasty with my computer complaint. Rebooting the wireless router seems to have fixed the problem. It just goes to show how unstable our computers and peripherals are. I think it was one of my professors who pointed out that if things went wrong with airplanes as frequently as they do with desktop computers, people would never stand for it.

I am now officially enrolled in my accounting class, and a significant chunk of money poorer than I was two weeks ago. We have our first test tomorrow; we are to pay 25¢ 50¢ for our blank Scantron answer sheet, or supply our own. We also have to pay ten bucks for some kind of booklet containing a longer-term assignment -- I don't know if it's a spiral-bound packet, or what. The school I attended back east was not so grasping.

Meanwhile, let me show you the weather forecast for this week. I've dealt with mid-Atlantic winters; now I get to experience a Southwestern summer.

Comments

[amberlorien.livejournal.com]

holy crap - I've never heard of having to pay for your own testing materials.

[403.livejournal.com]

Does your part of Texas get monsoons? If so, the outside conditions will probably get worse.

[copperwolf.livejournal.com]

I think the rains come later in the summer. I don't know whether there's enough rain to qualify as monsoon season. I've heard that there is flooding some years, including two years ago. It doesn't help that the streets here seem to lack an adequate storm sewer system: even just a major thunderstorm can put a major thoroughfare under a few inches of water.

[403.livejournal.com]

Huh, I wouldn't have expected the lack of storm sewers. Phoenix has an unexpectedly good system, which feeds into the canals that we draw drinking water from. I've only seen it overwhelmed once or twice, years ago.