Happy Sepia Saturday

Before getting into the meat and potatoes of my post, I wanted to put up a sepia shot that I took yesterday. I plan to do a separate post on our travels to obtain a good deal on a purchase, but for now, this endeavor took us all the way to Raleigh, North Carolina. Since moving to the foothills area of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Southwest Virginia about a year ago, I have become accustomed to seeing mountains in nearly every direction. Not only that, I have become accustomed to the roads near home always going up or down a steep hill and usually turning sharply either left or right at the same time. Our excursion to Raleigh led us through the Piedmont area of South Central Virginia which is flat and void of mountains. This shot was taken while returning home. If you look closely you can see some mountains in the far-off distance.

Making do...

All my life, I feel like I've been making do. I don't feel that this is a complaint, I am just merely stating a fact. See if something worked it was good, and if it was good it was good enough. I purposely never thought about the advantages of "better” because “better" usually costs extra.

Sure I might splurge now and again on something special like a tool to do a certain job, but the idea of just spending money on a creature comfort was blasphemy. However, now that I am getting older by the day, I feel more at ease about spending a few bucks on a treat.

This wireless mouse and keyboard is a perfect example of such a treat. What is nice about it is that it will enable me to do my work from either sitting at my desk, or laying on my bed with my feet up. Talk about making things nicer, this is going to spoil me.

So far I am impressed with how smooth both the keyboard and the mouse work. In the past I have not had good luck with wireless devices but that was ancient history and it seems that things have improved. That being said this was not a super inexpensive model, although I was being true to my cheap ass nature and bought the open box model which allowed me to save over 50%.