Thanks to Amie Stuart and her 14 Days of Love I found something Fabulous! Check out this calendar by artist Robert Alvarado. I want it. I’m getting it.
Weird Bit….A strange thing happened to me last week. My iMac died. Well, okay, it didn’t really die, but it did get sick. So sick I had to wipe the hard drive and reinstall the operating system. Only that didn’t really help. And the more things we (I say we because AppleCare was on the phone with me all day last Wednesday trying to help me figure out what was wrong. LOVE the people at AppleCare.) Anyway. The more things we tried, the worse it got. Turns out I need a new harddrive. Very weird. I say this because I’ve been using Macs for about 6 years now, and I’ve never ever had a problem with one. I’ve had the iMac in question for 3 years now, and again, no problems at all until this. I thought I might’ve gotten a virus, but the guy at the shop said Nope, I’d just killed it. LOL And that yes, it was very rare for that to happen.
I also have to say that this issue with the iMac was probably the least stressed I’ve ever been about having a computer issue. And that’s because I had an external hard drive, a MacBook pro (that had all my writing stuff backed up on it) and a MobileMe account. Redundancy is good in some things.
Good news, A new hard drive is less than $100, and it’s a bigger faster one than the one that came with the 3 year old computer. Color me happy.
Personal Bit….I fucked up my ankle again. If you’ve been following me for a while you might know this happens to me too often. Yesterday, as I was getting into my car to go to work last night I rolled my ankle because of a rut in the packed snow. I cursed, I cried, it didn’t make it feel any better. Bad ankles are not a good thing for waitresses…thank God I have good co-workers who let me baby it for the 3 hours I was there before someone could switch form the restaurant to the bar to cover the rest of my shift.
Writing Bit…. My lovely editor at Samhain has sent me a draft of the cover for ONE WEEKEND, and I have to say. I like it. I think you will too. I’ll share as soon as I can. Maybe I’ll even have a blurb to share soon. :)
I can’t wait to read One Weekend !! And I’m really, really glad you like your new editor.
Do you think the salt air had anything to do with your laptop’s demise?
It wasn’t my laptop that died, it was the desktop. The iMac. It’s just over three years old, and I’ve not exactly been gentle, but it’s the first time I’ve had anything happen to one of my Macs, so it’s all good. ANd it was cheap to repair, and now it’s even better. LOL