Ya Win Some, Ya Lose Some

[przed]

My shiny, newish Mac Pro is fixed and sitting in our foyer.

Alas, it's going to continue sitting in the foyer until the Sweetie gets home tonight. It weighs a ton, and there's no way I'm going to try and drag it up to our third floor office. I just barely managed to get it down from there by myself.

I don't think I'll even have much time to set it up and make sure it really is happily fixed until Monday night, since I'm off to Stratford for the day tomorrow for more theatre (The Importance of Being Earnest and Cyrano De Bergerac with FJBryan), and then Saturday we're off to my mum's for Thanksgiving weekend.

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[just-ann-now.livejournal.com]

Eee! Say a big hello to FJBryan for me.

[przed.livejournal.com]

Shall do!

[gritsinmisery.livejournal.com]

*nods* When the old iMac started to fail I hauled it in to the Apple store, which is in the middle of a very large mall and of course not anywhere near any of the outside entrances to the mall.

It took Daughter and I both to lug the beast. I realize the stands are that heavy to keep the computer from falling over, but... DAMN.

[przed.livejournal.com]

They are beasts, aren't they. I just wish they'd design handles on them that don't cut into your hands like razors. (Apple's designers are usually so good about things like that. :-/ )

[gritsinmisery.livejournal.com]

I guess they expect you to keep the box around forever and ever amen and tuck it back in there if you have to cart it about. We probably did do, but I don't know where it is and I was the one stuck taking it in.

[przed.livejournal.com]

I don't think the box would help with the behemoth. It would just be a bigger, bulkier hunk of incredibly heavy white dwarf star matter.

(And I chopped it into recycling kindling ages ago, even if I did think it would help. Mostly on account of I just found the boxes for my last two, long since dead machines in the basement and I'm not putting up with the stupid boxes for that length of time again.)

[draycevixen.livejournal.com]

I started to read this first of all with a big "huh?" on my face as almost everyone I know now has a laptop that they dock to use with a larger monitor/traditional keyboard... Sorry, brain is slow in braining today.

Happy Thanksgiving! There's still a month to go here. *g*

[przed.livejournal.com]

Because I'm a nut and I use mine for both vidding and doing video editing for work, I bought the biggest, shiniest, most fully loaded Mac Pro desktop I could afford. The Sweetie's co-worker/friend, who also has a Mac of the teeny laptop variety, calls it the Supercomputer. (It's got 10 GB of RAM! And 2 TB of hard drive space!)

I used to love being a Canadian living in the States during grad school, 'cause I got two Thanksgivings for the price of one. (The American variation is way bigger than the Canadian one, though.)

[draycevixen.livejournal.com]

Of course the Brits don't have one at all. When I used to teach undergrads every year some of them would ask me what the English did for Thanksgiving and I say "throw a big party and celebrate that the puritans left."

[przed.livejournal.com]

There were a couple of Brits at our grad school that got asked the same thing. They'd either laugh or verbally flay the offender.

(Certain Americans there were also confused that neither the Brits nor the Canadians celebrated the 4th of July. And were confused when it was pointed out that they were celebrating winning a war over us.)

[draycevixen.livejournal.com]

A sign that the (American) OH and I are well matched? The 4th of July is our wedding anniversary. Yep, the day war broke out between England and America, we just had to do it. *g*

[przed.livejournal.com]

That is the most awesome anniversary ever! And you'll never forget when it is.

We constantly forget when our anniversary is. It's October 15, plus or minus a day. (We only tied the knot for the adoption paperwork, and while we had a very nice ceremony and a fabulous party afterward, it was all just a prelude to becoming parents to the Ros.)

[draycevixen.livejournal.com]

My Mother and MIL say I made it far too easy on the OH... y'know, like I planned it that way. *headdesk* In addition to the 4th of July, we had our first date on Valentine's Day after I sent a six foot gorilla to the creative writing class he was teaching, my birthday is Cinco de Mayo (someone in America will generally remind him of that if only the pubs *g*).

The one thing in life we were both completely and utterly certain about is that neither one of us would ever settle down with one person and certainly *never* *ever* get married. Nuh huh. Despite very strong attraction I avoided dating him until three months before he graduated (he was the year head of me) secure in the knowledge that he'd been gone, long gone in just a few months. LIfe is strange... *g*

[przed.livejournal.com]

Wait, wait, a six foot gorilla? That's one way to get someone's attention. *g*

I always swore I'd never get married, unless I had a good bureaucratic reason to do so. Not romantic, but true. Fortunately the Sweetie was of the same opinion, so we quite happily shacked up until we had a good reason to take the plunge. And we're still not too conventional about it. Our rings for the ceremony were fake jade that were three bucks a piece in Chinatown, and neither of us wear one now. And there was no way I was giving up the Zed name; it's too much fun.

[draycevixen.livejournal.com]

It's a long convoluted story best summed up in one drunk English woman explaining to two drunk American female friends how Valentine's Day is different in the UK than in America in that it's often used to woo a desired mate. Three drunken phonecalls to a singing telegram place later... and... well... let's just say I still call the OH the best $30 I ever spent. *eg* My office was above the classroom he was teaching in and I actually heard the roar from his students.

I don't use the OH's name either, never occurred to either of us and the only one who was taken aback was my Mother. Governments are by definition rather large bureaucracies and it's rather nice to be able to reside in the same country as your sweetie. *g*

[przed.livejournal.com]

Definitely 30 bucks well spent. (Man, I wish I'd thought of that. *g*)

My mother wasn't so much taken aback that I didn't go with the Sweetie's name as disbelieving that I wouldn't take the opportunity to ditch a crazy name with too many vowels. (She went from a sensible Irish name to the Zed moniker.) Personally, I love having a name that puts fear in people's eyes when they have to say it. *g*

[draycevixen.livejournal.com]

As much as anything my Mother doesn't understand why I wouldn't have ditched my dad's name while I could but I like it and believe me, you don't need a surfeit of vowels to confuse people. *g*

[ancastar.livejournal.com]

Oh wow! Fun trips on the horizon. I hope you enjoy them.

You know one of the biggest potential bummers with my whole surgery thing? I have tickets to Cate Blanchett in Streetcar at the Kennedy Center. They're for mid-November.

I have a feeling that timing *sucks*!

[przed.livejournal.com]

I'm looking forward to this weekend. And the four days off that will make it up!

The Blanchett ticket situation is a bummer. Perhaps you could have them schedule the surgery late enough that you'll get to go. Of course, that pushes you into Christmas...

I asked to have my surgery delayed, since we had just booked the venue for our wedding two days before I got the call from my doctor. Fortunately it wasn't a problem. Though putting it back to November and having so many complications meant Christmas was pretty quiet that year. (We stayed in Toronto, since there was no way I could travel, cooked a wee chicken and had a wee tree. It was actually kinda nice.)