Moving Day

The early units of my PowerBook model have a problem where "white spots" — washed out areas, really — appear on the screen over the course of a few weeks and stay there forever. My laptop suffers from these spots.

Apple has had a repair program in place for those machines affected, but I've been reluctant to give over the machine that manages a lot of my personal and business life. However, the time limit on the repair program is running out, so I told Robyn that I would have to be out of work for a few days while Apple cured my digital pack mule. I was surprised when he offered to loan me his laptop for the week. He has a few machines at home that he can work from during that time.

So I dropped my laptop off at the new Apple Store at the Fashion Centre mall at Pentagon City. The Mac Genius confirmed that all repairs would be under warranty. I made a backup earlier in the day, so I've been spending this morning trying to move some of my preferences and files over to Robyn's laptop. I'm reminded of gregmce's recent move — I feel like I'm moving in the furniture and making sure everything fits.

The only glitch so far is that Robyn's laptop hasn't been upgraded to the latest operating system, and the old version of Apple's Mail program isn't displaying emails since about the end of May, because that's when I upgraded. The new version of Mail has been storing emails in new places since then.

Other than that, things have behaved predictably. For instance, I knew that my network wouldn't recognize his laptop, because I have it restricted to a shortlist of approved devices. Later on, I'll have to reconfigure my network to accept it, which will be complicated by the fact that I can't login to the base station because the laptop isn't already on the list. :-)

I had a great weekend. I'll be writing more about when I have more time. Work now!

Three out of four Body Electric assistants agree

This is so high school, but what the hell.

mai_neh made quite the impression among the guys who assisted at Celebrating the Body Electric (CBE) II over the weekend. First, Doug M. mentioned him after we dropped the instructor off at the airport. Then, as we were moving equipment out of Bob S.'s home, Whittney turned to Doug and said something to the effect of, "so how about that other Doug! Yum!" which made us laugh. When questioned, Chuck also agreed.

By the way, the fourth assistant wasn't included in this informal survey, so 100% of my sample agreed that mai_neh is a sexy, sexy man! :-)

Shining

The world is full of talented people with too much time on their hands. slothel posted a link to this. I wonder when this movie is hitting the theatres? ;-)

Yay, me!

Here's something that I do often.

Tonight, feeling a little hungry, I wandered into the kitchen and surveyed my collection of dirty dishes. Upon deciding upon what I wanted to eat, I gathered the required dishes and pans and washed them. I prepared dinner, ate it, and then returned the dishes to the kitchen, dirty once more.

Ah, but tonight would be different! I then actually washed the dishes again — for the second time! Yay, me!

Then I washed more dishes that I hadn't used, just because.

Not that my kitchen is clean now, mind you, but it was a little bit of progress.

Over the weekend, mai_neh had lunch together. I observed that todc would absolutely hate living with me, because I'm such a slob. I can be trained, however. During my one time living with an exacting personality, I managed to live up to his standards. I have no idea if I could have maintained that behavior, because he dumped me and moved out about two months after he and I had moved to Baltimore and set up housekeeping together. :-\

So, one point to him for good housekeeping, and minus several billion for being a such a fissure.