No need to work or study or anything, no plans, just Bug at the house, watching soccer and playing with toys ( Read more... )

I brought this game over to Kent's totally cold, knowing nothing about it, having not read the rules -- so we had a project on our hands. It's a very complicated game ( Read more... )

I was able to pick up my new laptop on my way home from the office. I spoke with an Apple Store manager who gave me absolutely nothing, not even a discount, not even honoring the original quote given if the repair had not been under warranty -- they tacked on $120 extra to the original quote for "labor cost". He said the time for me to have ( Read more... )

I'd crossed enough things off my work To Do List by Noon that I felt I could take an hour or two off during the afternoon to drop off my broken laptop for repair. The best time window was offered by the Rockville MicroCenter, via the Apple Support website.

That turned out to be a disaster, when the service tech quickly decided that I had a ( Read more... )

K had predicted it would get worse. Glad it is under warranty!

Having spent a bunch of time moving all 100GB of my music to this new laptop, I'm more aware of it all now, and lately I've been focused on getting to know the music in my own Music library rather than learning about other music via a streaming service.  I'm not currently paying for any music streaming service, although K shares his with me via a ( Read more... )

While in the hot tub I found a short-lived podcast (only three episodes!) in which a couple friends talked about their Civ 5 game stories, playing against humans (multiplayer), which I've not done with this version and haven't done with Civ in a long time ( Read more... )

OK, everything was done by 8am, cats are in jail, stuff is put away. If Maids arrive before 2pm I'll go on a long walk, if they arrive between 2-4pm I'll hole up in my bedroom for my two meetings. I may go on a long walk in the middle of the day anyway, I have nothing on my work calendar until 2pm ( Read more... )

It took weeks of research, more than one try (each taking hours), a bunch of troubleshooting, and there are still a small number of errors and duplicates to clean up, but I have successfully transferred my 10,000 song | 100GB | 16-year-old iTunes/Music library to my new laptop ( Read more... )

I'm tired of having a limited selection of my porn library on the big TV at the condo, but apparently the only way to access all of it (without laboriously copying all of it into iTunes, which would double the required storage space, and then using the iTunes sharing system via an AppleTV app) is to connect one of my laptops directly to the big TV ( Read more... )