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July 14, 2004
remote update.
things that have happened in the last two days:
- my darling brother (who is six-foot-1, blonde-haired, blue-eyed, quick-of-wit, large-of-hand-and-foot,) attempted to fix my comatose computer by swapping out the power supply (which, thanks to mister eblo we knew wouldn't blow anything up or spontaneously erase anything). the computer now can find everything but the c and d drives, which, strangely enough, are where I tend to keep all my important stuff, like programs and datafiles and everything.
- I have started shopping for a laptop computer. which I surely cannot afford, but which I cannot afford to live without. any suggestions will be noted and appreciated. particularly suggestions as to how to sanely switch from pc owner to mac owner without dying from the lack of programs.
- I have also started shopping for someone to backup all my stuff from C: to CD - this should be easier to find, shouldn't it?
- The stress from the computer stuff and the stupid relationship stuff and the moneyless stuff resulted in sleepless horribleness of abdominal angst stuff a few days ago. Emergency room visit lengthened to day-long-stay, with only two books and no tivo and thank fucking god for adorable emergency room staff who will juggle empty bedpans if you ask them. no, it's not a tumor, it may be an ulcer or kidney stones or a residual gallbladder thing from back when I had one or something...ugh. anyway, we have no idea why I'm all pained-up. they told me I'm not dying and gave me drugs and sent me home after 8 hours of the calmest and boringest emergency room experience I've ever had....at least there's the drugs.
on the plus side, my job still doesn't suck, my friends are still adorable and supportive, and all sorts of cool non-computer stuff is in the works.
- like ms. Amy's shakespeare thingy, in Zion, this august (anyone know an actress willing to drive up to Zion for the role of a lifetime? 'cause the opportunity to work with Amy is one that shouldn't be missed!)
- like the midwestern premiere of Buttleman, part of the Chicago Indiefest Film Festival. At which you'll not only be able to enjoy the best indie the midwest can offer, but also can catch a glimpse of the oh-so-elusive, ever-so-effusive, project-conducive Director/Writer, Park Ridge's Very Own Frank Stokes.
- like the completion of The Bone Woman: A Forensic Anthropologist's Search for Truth in the Mass Graves of Rwanda, Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo , After, and Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim...all three are sitting, half-read, on my nightstand at home....if only I had put them in my bag before leaving for the emergency room....
Posted by Heather at July 14, 2004 08:57 AM
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Why are you wanting to switch to the mac? On top of having less software, PCs are way cheaper. Get a Dell laptop, I have one and have been very happy with it for the last two years.
Just find someone with an external DVD burner to back up yr hard drive to.
And one last thing, I hope that you feel better.
Posted by: mxv at July 15, 2004 02:30 PM
For desktops, yeah, Macs are way cheaper. Laptops, though, the prices aren't too much different. And you can do pretty much anything on a mac that you can do on a PC - about the only thing a PC is better for is games. If you're worried about a lack of programs, list what you'd use your laptop for (email? web? coding? word processing?) and I can tell you what programs exist for those tasks.
Oh, and as a disclaimer (in case it wasn't obvious) I'm a Mac user, but I also own and use PCs.
Posted by: Pat Allan at July 15, 2004 05:04 PM
Gah, I wasn't quite awake when I wrote that. PC desktops are definitely cheaper than Mac desktops, not the other way around.
Posted by: Pat Allan at July 16, 2004 10:58 PM
I didn't know I made the site! How funny - unfortunately the zion stumbling block is a big one - I guess the 'city of god' doesn't attract folks like it used to. So we soldier on with a cast of 5 . . .but it is a wonderful cast, and we are having wonderful fun, so we proceed. Thanks for the broadcast - tho! it is muchly appreciated - and when your computer is broken too! it's like you went above and beyond the call . . =)
Posted by: ms. Amy at July 19, 2004 05:19 PM