Getting my Mac on

Weekend update: 

Friday - a tiny bit of partying with some girlfriends. Partying as in middle age mom style, which means really fattening foods my kids would never touch, wine and Season 1 of The Wire on DVD. In a house with no children. Or men. Jealous much?

Saturday - went to my Mac Getting Started class and learned how to operate my computer, for the most part.  Carlie had a soccer game, which her team lost, but she played like a fierce little demon, which we love.  After the soccer game, I did a little bit of good deedery at a church dinner, and got a delish free meal and chianti for my efforts.  Yay for being Catholic, the most partying religion on the block, yo.

Sunday - gave Bill Gates another big fat SUCK IT when 

I figured out how to load my MSN email as my default email on my Mac.  Yeah baby!  Went to church, did a little bit more volunteering in the gift shop (snooze fest).  Spent the rest of the day trying to load my MSN Explorer favorites into the Mac explorer and, woe is me, have not figured it out.... yet.

Things I did not do this weekend:

Laundry

Grocery Shopping

Running

Any form of exercise, for that matter

Income-generating work, of which I have much that I have not done, and am overwhelmingly behind.  

PS....  my Mac has a built in web cam.  How annoying is that going to be in, like, a day?  Also, would you like me to say MY MAC one more time?  How obnoxious am I when I get something new?

Fall (at least in the morning)

This morning feels like fall. Yesterday morning felt like fall too, and it actually lasted throughout the day. Hopefully, fall is here. But I'm going to wait to see if it "sticks" before I pack up the summer clothes. I snapped a photo of one of the 10 billion clusters of delicious grapes on our grapevines. We've got a mishmash of types of grapes, all yum.

Laptop update: I have signed up for the Getting Started class at the Apple Store, Saturday morning at 8:25. I have cool Mac friends offering to help me figure it out, but the class is free and my list of questions is extremely lame, and if I want to give off any aura of cool toting my Mac around town, I can't have people knowing that I couldn't figure out how to hook up a printer, now can I?

A friend took my fried laptop home with him last night. He is removing the hard drive, putting it into an external hard drive casing and, voila, my entire old hard drive will be accessible to me without paying for hours of labor for someone to sit and watch the data transfer. Life is good. And how cool is that? This is the most techo impressed I have been since my wrist band opened my hotel room door at Great Wolf. (Yes, I am still easily impressed.) Sometimes I get these glimpses of, wow, we ARE living in the future, just minus the flying cars.

When I was a Jetson-watching kid, I truly in my heart of hearts believed we'd be driving flying cars by the time I was old enough to drive. What a disappointment. Of course, now that I am a gas-guzzling SUV driver, the allure of flying cars is diminished. I am sure that any car that can actually fly would be more along the lines of a Smart Car than an SUV. Nothing against Smart cars, but I don't think I'd look good driving one.

Off to start the daily grind... gym in the morning, work in the afternoon, soccer practice in the evening, movie night with girlfriends when the sun goes down. Carlie is ridiculously excited because today is "free dress" at school. When you go to a school with uniforms, free dress is a BIG HONKING DEAL. It happens the last Friday of every month, but today is a special free dress for kids that participated in the summer reading program, so it's a double whammy. Not only does she get to wear her jeans, but she gets to strut around in front of kids in uniform who didn't read over the summer. She is also easily impressed.

Me and my friend Mac

Just a quickie, because I have work up to my ass to do and still have yet to load my work software on my Mac. I am, though, mentally preparing a lovely post on what it is like to sit in the Mac store from 9:20 a.m. till 12:30 p.m. and pay a techie $100 per hour while he plays games on his iPhone (which, OMG, need an iPhone now, thanks) and watches your computer reload the OS because in the 12 hours that I owned the Mac I apparently wiped out the hard drive. Go figure.

Hopefully I will master the Mac, Mac will become my bitch, and I shall dominate the world. And develop mad kung fu skills to aid in the world domination.

I'll bet that Bill Gates is crying in his beer tonight, now that I've gone Mac on his ass.

Laptop Update

Motherboard is fried. Some data may be salvaged, we'll see.

Went to Best Buy to buy a new laptop. Must have XP for work software, Vista doesn't work. Left in tears after two hours, near a nervous breakdown.

Stopped at the Apple store, bought a Mac. Pray for me.

When new computer is up and running and am not blogging from blackberry, will be able to post with pronouns again : )