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I made it back into Calgary last night at about midnight (local time), having travelled for the most part straight from the parking lot of the Vernon CanRC. One thing that I discovered this morning when I phoned to see how the move was going, was that the newlywed couple will apparently be delayed until Wednesday for their move into the new place.

Thus, while they said that I could show up tonight, I think that all of us would probably prefer to avoid that. Following the call I dropped in at the townhouse just long enough to do a little bit of laundry, and to pack a bag for a few days. Presently I've got no idea where I'll be sleeping tonight, although I'm sure that I can work something out.

There was a poll on this topic just over a month ago, but at the moment it seems that power no longer is feeding into my iBook from the power adaptor, and so I'm currently using what's left in the battery to back the thing up onto my desktop computer's hard drive.

It could be the little charger brick that died, or it could be something interal to the machine, but I suspect that it's not worth the cost & hassle of diagnosis (unless someone has one of these charger thingies available for short-term loan).

I suppose this leaves me with a few questions: Can I afford a new laptop? Is a digital SLR a higher priority? If I should go laptop shopping, what should I look for? Is anyone looking for an iBook G3 for parts - or to try to get working again?

So, thus far it seems that one other person is interested in camping somewhere in the vicinity of Shuswap this weekend. Give me a shout if you're interested, and I can set you up with access to the corresponding wiki page.

Yes, it's early enough in the season that most campgrounds won't be open yet, but the temperatures should be OK. Last year, I spent a night in my tent on an April trip and that worked out well. The temperatures then were definitely a lot warmer than when sleeping in the car back in November 2003 (-10 or colder excluding windchill).