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a little more mac every day

seed pod - nature conservancy lot
seed pod - nature conservancy lot

After a morning designing forms at the hospital – paperwork is my life – I decided that is was time to get The Airness connected to the rest of the computers in the house. It now happily plays with the elderly XP systems and uses the XP’s old HP printer. I did have to download a new printer driver – but nothing to that. I suppose I’ll try to get it connected to the Ubuntu system next.  Should work fine – since the Mac is really a Unix system is designer duds.

Speaking of designer duds. One of the downsides of losing 20 pound is that I now give a shit what I am wearing. What a pain that is! At my time of life, I should be heading off to polyester and elastic waists – or at least The Talbots and Chicos. It isn’t easy to be stylish with my requirement for shoes that you can walk five miles in. And my refusal to frequent the dry cleaners. And my reluctance to shop anywhere except at thrift shops.

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Point and Shoot

Who says that you have to use a $99 camera to Point and Shoot.
The L1 goes to a party wearing  the wrong lens.

girl in the window
girl in the window
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As you can see, Carlton did not wear the PLAID sports coat. Fashion note about men. Young men take off their ties when they play dress up. Old men put ties on when dressing up. And, all ladies still look good in black.

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Now, this is disconcerting…

“Everyone”, even the Apple Genies say that if you connect a Windows formatted iPod to a Mac – it will be reformatted and you will lose everything on the iPod. Well, I decided that I was going to connect my old iPod to the Air and reformat, reload, etc… Well, I connected. And nothing happened. iTunes said if was Windows formatted. But, that was all. Everything else worked. It charged. I removed files. I added files. I copied playlists. It might as well have been connected to a Windows machine.

When something works that isn’t supposed to work … it is almost a disconcerting as having something not work that should work. I haven’t tried connecting the Touch. It has lots of data stored on it. I’d hate to lose all stats etc etc.

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pau

Regular flu shots pau. That would normally mean  pau hana time. But, swine flu vaccines are on the way. I am feeling pretty Hawaiian.

Heck, I might even wear my white mu’u mu’u to the cocktail party tonight. Just kidding.

Not kidding about needing a little Hawaii.

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october already?

cart jam @ target
cart jam @ target

Sometimes, sometimes something fun shows up AND have my camera AND manage to get off an OK shot. Here we have the cart caterpillar at Target.

And what was I doing at Target? Buying some really disgusting powdered totally chemical coffee creamer that Carlton likes. I am sure that the stuff is shortening his life – but what the heck? Carlton really doesn’t care if he wakes up tomorrow morning. It is actually a great way to live if you can pull it off.

Tomorrow (if Carlton wakes up) we are going a party given by a girl who just graduated from college with a degree in fashion design. “Cocktail Attire” is the required dress. I am horrified about what Carlton might wear. I told him that when kids are invited to “grownup” parties they have to behave. Well, it seems to me that when you are an old person and you get invited to an important “young people” party – well as an old person – you are expected to behave. And that means NO YOU CAN NOT WEAR THAT PLAID 1950’s SPORT COAT.

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instant starbucks, a very bad sign of the times

instant starbucks?
instant starbucks?

Instant Starbucks has been promised for months. Now it seems to have arrived. I am underwhelmed. Contempt prior to investigation.

This morning Carlton made a major financial contribution to the new Apple Computer, hereinafter known as the Carlton Computer. Hopefully it will be more reliable than the HP Vista Whore Machine. Heck, the Carlton Computer was more reliable right out of the box. The HPVWM wouldn’t even bootup out of the box.

I entered 584 flu shot records in the computer this morning. We gave another 250 or so that don’t go in the computer. And, then tomorrow is another day of flu shot giving. And then – I suspect – we will run out of flu shots.

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flu shot madness

Our little staff in employee health gave over 800 flu shots today. Of course I didn’t shoot anyone. Just fetched supplies. Tomorrow – I’ll warm up my fingers for a “little” data entry. Then we do it all over again on Wednesday. At this rate we’ll be out of vaccine by Friday. Which will not cause me any problem – but it might upset folk who missed out. That is why a work for free. Not my problem.

Been thinking about my iPods. Yes, I have two – and still use both. An old “classic” and a “touch”. I could and might sync my “classic” with the Mac. But, the touch is a different story. It has lots of data in it that are tied to the apps. And I am as yet unsure if the data can be safely migrated to the Mac.

For dinner – after a long day of volunteering – we are having butternut squash with chicken sausages.

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nothing

nothing at all going on today. not a bad thing, mind you. just sort of dull. sort of like the ken burn’s national parks pbs show. i can not even rouse myself to hit the shift key. shades of archy and mehitabel.

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About Sleeping

Macbook Air, Fujitsu u810, Old Classic iPod
Macbook Air, Fujitsu u810, Old Classic iPod

Last night I wasn’t asleep. Us old folks are always bitching about not being able to sleep. Well, last night – when I wasn’t sleeping – I went out and sat on my porch. Guess what? There were lots of young people outside. Walking around, talking, get cabs, etc. They were not asleep. I bet they were not going to be bitching about not sleeping well today. When I was young, I considered sleep a huge waste of time. I don’t remember ever saying “Gee, its Friday night – guess I’ll snag some zzzz’s” Enough already about not sleeping. Plenty of time to sleep when I am dead!

It has been a week since the Mac followed me home.As you can see from the picture – it is very thin. But, it has a nice solid feel. (I just noticed that the iPod Touch and the $199 Dell are in the picture as well.)

This morning I tossed WINE on the Macbook.  Several times a year, I need Dreamweaver. Just to tweak something that I created years ago. With Ubuntu, I discovered that my elderly version of Dreamweaver works good enough under WINE. And, it works good enough with the Mac version as well. So much for banning all things Windows from the Mac. (Except for two mouse buttons, of course.)

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better

Four hours after I give up on using mental powers to cure a bacterial infection and took the first Cipro pill – I started feeling better.

Think it is time to get back to taking, organizing and culling photos.

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drat drat drat

I think I have a bladder infection. What do you expect – after they shove a periscope up your pipe? Went back to complain to the doctor. They gave me a ‘script for Cipro. I picked the drugs up. I still haven’t taken any. I made a mistake – I read the warnings that came with the drugs. Why am I all of a sudden being concerned with “side effects”?

Maybe it isn’t an infection. Maybe I’ll get better just as fast as I got worse. Maybe horses can fly. I have never gotten over a bladder infection without drugs. Last time I got a bladder infection – I ended up in the hospital. Maybe there are worse things than side effects.

I think I have most – and maybe even all – of my iTunes transferred to the MacBook Air. Still haven’t decided about which system to used with my iPods.

One of the thing that is supposed to make bladder infections feel better is to put a heating pad on your lower abdomen. When I was younger, I used my cat. Today, I am using my MacBook. It really doesn’t get very hot. Sort of cat temperature. According to the computer it’s bottom is 98.6 degrees F.

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all in all a good day

The procedure wasn’t nearly as bad as expected. And, the doc couldn’t find anything in need of repairs.

My mammogram from last week was OK.

My MacBook Air read and writes my external Sony DVD Drive.

My wonderful much loved Microsoft blue tooth mouse – who has been out of service since the HP Vista Whore toasted its mother board – My dear blue tooth mouse fired right up with the MacBook. And it RIGHT CLICKS too. What is with the lack of right click? I guess it is a mac thing. Well, not all things Microsoft are bad. Two mouse buttons are better than one.

I removed some of my audio books from the iTunes library and am going to try to migrate it over to the Apple. Well, see what happens.

I am coming to realize that the Mac OS really is just a very finely crafted, limited edition, Unix system. Nothing special under the hood. But, unlike the various Linux ports – one does not have to go under the hood. At least not on a regular basis.