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It’s been a long year in terms of laptops. I have sampled a great many, and I think I have finally found the one that I like the best: The 15″ Unibody MacBook Pro. This laptop does everything I could possibly ask of it. Laptops that I have owned over the last two years:

1. 13″ Black MacBook
2. 15″ Unibody MacBook Pro
3. 14″ Dell Studio 14z
4. 13″ Black MacBook
5. 17″ Santa-Rosa MacBook Pro
6. 15″ Unibody MacBook Pro (current)

I’m fairly sure that is all of them, although I may be missing a one or two.

I liked my 13″ MacBook a lot but I just didn’t feel like they had all of the power I needed, and I felt like the screens were just a bit to small. They had the older style touchpad, and did not have a backlit keyboard. Although I didn’t like the newer style track pad at first, it has really grown on me.

The dell laptop that I had was okay, it ran linux of course, but I couldn’t get by without a multi-touch touch pad on my laptop as I had become accustomed to on my MacBook. Parts of the 14z just felt cheap and plasticky, which was tough coming from the extremely well made Apple laptops. I absolutely loved the keyboard on this machine. Shallow key-press depth, large, but not over-sized buttons. The 14z was an absolute dream to type on. The track-pad however, was an absolute nightmare. The lack of multi-touch alone was the feature that drove me back towards a macbook.

The problem with the Santa Rosa was that they keyboard’s key-press depth was just a tad too long for my taste, which caused me to miss keys often while typing. I also didn’t like the heat dissipation issues that I had with the santa rosa. I had to keep that laptop on a desk, or other hard surface if I didn’t want it to overheat. That presented some issues since I routinely use my laptop in bed.

My second 15″ Unibody MacBook Pro is a keeper. The display on the 17″ runs natively at 1920 x 1200 resolution, which is absolutely amazing to use. It feels as though you have a world of space available to you on your desktop. The 15″ display, however, runs natively at 1440 x 900. It feels a bit cramped with a few windows open, but was easy to get used to. I definitely wish that I had the higher resolution display, which is available through Apple, in this laptop. I enjoy typing on the chiclet style keyboard of the unibody MacBook Pros, it has the perfect key-press depth, and doesn’t require too much pressure to get the key down.

I really can’t say that I miss meat all that much. Granted it does make deciding what to order at restaurants a bit more difficult, but not so much that it’s impossible. I have done really well in avoiding all things that contain meat, and cutting down on milk/dairy products. I still need to find some soy milk, and I think that is going to take a trip over to Sunflower Market.

I have only screwed up once this week, and I had a slice of pizza that had a bit of pepperoni and sausage on it. Overall, I would say that this is turning into a big success.

I had a tough time at Dennys tonight. I went with a bunch of friends from work. Since I’m trying to save some money, I thought it would be a good idea to get two, two dollar items, instead of one six dollar item. It was definitely a good idea on the saving money part, but my I guess my menu reading wasn’t quite adequate. My biscuits came out covered in gravy, with shredded sausage on top of the gravy. I ended up scraping off all of the sausage, and most of the gravy and just eating the biscuits. It was still decent (although I am feeling a little sick now).

Cravings for meat haven’t been bad at all. I had the urge for a double whopper with cheese earlier in the week, but I was just hungry at the time, and then it passed. What I have had a huge craving for is peanut butter. It is so amazing on everything. I’m going to pick some up that doesn’t have trans-fat in it when I get the soy milk.

Here is some meatless deliciousness that I made a few days ago. I called it ‘eggs in a basket with peanut butter and syrup’ It was seriously amazing:

Ingredients List:

• Small bit of butter for the pan.
• 2 pieces of wheat bread.
• 2 Eggs
• Peanut butter for spread.
• As much syrup as you would like.
• A Fry Pan
• About 10 minutes.

Cooking Instructions:

1. Cut a 3″(ish) hole in each piece of bread, with a knife.
2. Heat butter in pan. Coat evenly.
3. Add bread to pan.
4. Crack 1 egg in each piece of bread.
5. Wait for bread to toast on one side, then flip.
6. Toast other side of bread, egg should be finishing up about now as well.
7. Remove from heat, slather with peanut butter. coat in syrup.
8. Eat!

There it is, all done. This meal was SUPER filling, so if you aren’t very hungry consider making this amount for two, or just cooking one for yourself.

Another successful day of Vegetarianism. I watched some very disturbing videos last night about the meat industry. These just re-affirmed my decision to go without meat. The Conklin Farms video makes me want to drop dairy as well though. I can’t stand the thought of contributing to that type of torture and abuse. The video was seriously hard to stomach, in fact I didn’t make it all the way through it. Never will I understand what possesses someone to abuse animals in that fashion. I do feel a little bit better knowing that my quiet, passive protest will go towards stopping abuse like that. I only wish I could see the difference that we are making. Some statistics or numbers about animals saved due to vegetarians would be VERY re-assuring.

Todays Eats.

Breakfast: Captain Crunch w/Cruncberries and milk (I’m buying soy milk tomorrow. It’s on my list of things to do). The usual coffee, which from here on out, I will call ‘the shot in the dark’ because that is what it is called at my beloved coffeeshop, coffeepod. Medium coffee, w/2 shots of espresso and 1 raw sugar.

Lunch: Peanut butter / jelly, water to drink.

Dinner: Bajio chimichanga w/o meat. It was mostly just black beans, mexican rice in a tortilla, deep fried. black beans on the side as well. Lemonade to drink.

Weirdly today, I didn’t have any snacks, I just had the above food and a lot of water. Also forgot to take my multivitamin today.

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