Biting the bullet (in more ways that one)
Way #1: Had a dentist appointment this morning. Don't really like dentist appointments. Like them even less when I have to wake up early on what's supposed to be my late-shift day to go to them. On the other hand, I went for breakfast with Mom afterwards and my mouth didn't hurt too much, so at least that's good.
Way #2: Bought a new ipod classic tonight. It's somewhat bigger than my ipod mini, but it's worth it for all the extra space. True, it's got less than 8 gig of music / podcasts on it at the moment, but that just means I've got plenty of room to expand, and also that I can use it as a backup for critical files in case something happens to my laptop.
A few other items of note:
- After several years of low-grade annoyance with Appleworks' slow performance, I finally was convinced (by my mom) to figure out what the heck was causing the problem. Turns out it has to do with the fact that Appleworks never deletes its "recent items" folder. Never. So after almost four years, her folder had over 2,000 aliases ("shortcuts" for Windows users) just sitting there slowing everything down. Dumped the folder and now everything runs like a charm. Did it on my computer, too, and disabled "recent items" on both computers. Yay for small victories.
- It turns out that the woman who served me at the Apple Store had my mom for a third grade teacher about 19 years ago. (She saw my last name and said, "Did you have a mom who taught elementary school? On the south shore?") Yet another one of those "small world" things.
- I'm contemplating joining Twitter. Not so much for posting (at least not yet) but because the number of people I want to follow is getting large enough that it's annoying to go through them one by one. On the other hand, that's exactly the same reason I joined LJ, and look where that's gotten me. Anyone feel like convincing me one way or the other? Join / no join?
Way #2: Bought a new ipod classic tonight. It's somewhat bigger than my ipod mini, but it's worth it for all the extra space. True, it's got less than 8 gig of music / podcasts on it at the moment, but that just means I've got plenty of room to expand, and also that I can use it as a backup for critical files in case something happens to my laptop.
A few other items of note:
- After several years of low-grade annoyance with Appleworks' slow performance, I finally was convinced (by my mom) to figure out what the heck was causing the problem. Turns out it has to do with the fact that Appleworks never deletes its "recent items" folder. Never. So after almost four years, her folder had over 2,000 aliases ("shortcuts" for Windows users) just sitting there slowing everything down. Dumped the folder and now everything runs like a charm. Did it on my computer, too, and disabled "recent items" on both computers. Yay for small victories.
- It turns out that the woman who served me at the Apple Store had my mom for a third grade teacher about 19 years ago. (She saw my last name and said, "Did you have a mom who taught elementary school? On the south shore?") Yet another one of those "small world" things.
- I'm contemplating joining Twitter. Not so much for posting (at least not yet) but because the number of people I want to follow is getting large enough that it's annoying to go through them one by one. On the other hand, that's exactly the same reason I joined LJ, and look where that's gotten me. Anyone feel like convincing me one way or the other? Join / no join?