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March 08, 2007
The 'Book Ends, The 'Book Begins
A few quick things, since typing from beneath three parkas and two pairs of gloves can get real cumbersome real quick…
1) Made it through week one with MacBook #3 just fine. For those keeping track at home: first one was a dud out of the box, the second fell victim to gravity’s effect on a spilled glass of shiraz of shiraz last week, and this one…well, I’m waiting for a coyote to bust through the window at this point, pee on it, snatch it up in its maw, and run off into the cold, cold night. Anything’s possible at this point.
2) Last Sunday, my Dad came up so I could show him how to do a few things on his MacBook (he bought one soon after I did in the Fall). Since many of them were internet-based, I hooked him up to my wireless network right off the bat. While showing him how to make playlists in iTunes, however, I noticed that I had a new playlist all my own: namely, one consisting of every single song on his computer. My laptop essentially went, “Oh, lookie, toys!” and like a 3-year old, in a public sandbox, with no sense of personal property, just took all of them while I wasn’t looking and claimed them as its own. The lessons to be learned? This computer’s pretty sneaky, and I’m going to be a horrible father.
3) But seriously, that’s weird, right? I’m all for Apples working out of the box and being fairly intuitive (so long as, like, you don’t spill alcoholic beverages on them), but that’s a little silly, isn’t it? I mean, my computer for all intents and purposes turned into Sylar from “Heroes” for a bit there. It identified a nearby power, and said, “thankee kindly, methinks I’ll snatch that away now”. Luckily, my computer didn’t slice open the LCD screen of my father’s computer in order to obtain such power.
4) Speaking of alcoholic beverages, nothing will make you reach for the bottle faster than trying to deal with Apple support on the phone when trying to switch one’s Apple Care from one’s old computer to one’s new computer. One would think all this new man would have to do would be to switch the serial numbers on their database and voila, one could carry on with the admittedly stress-filled life one was currently experiencing. But lo, one would be wrong. Very, very wrong. Even though one’s fiancée was told in the store that switching coverage would be simple, all one needed to do was call to make sure everything was in order, one quickly finds out that tech support in India never, ever got that memo. Course, that doesn’t prevent one from shouting, “They lied to me, do you here me? They! Lied! To! Me!” at one point during the conversation. The way one gets out of this is by agreeing to get a credit on one’s credit card, the credit card one had so diligently paid off, so now all one can do is hope that this week’s “hey, use these checks tied into your credit card to pay off other bills!” package comes shortly, since why would one need a credit on credit card with a balance of zero? One has a migraine right now.
5) Speaking of migraines, I have a headache that wants to be THIS BIG, but sheer stubbornness is keeping it at bay. I hardly ever get sick. Not due to healthy lifestyle, or diet, or exercise, but pure will. I hate being sick, so I don’t get sick. It’s pretty simple. For one thing, who enjoys the flu? But secondly, it’s not like I trust anyone to help me get better if God forbid I do get sick. I made an appointment today to care of this stubborn stye that yes, is STILL around even after approximately 100 warm compresses, and I get penciled in for June 20th. The woman dared to ask me if that was OK. Like I make plans that far ahead. I don’t know what I’m doing tomorrow, woman! Ugh. Thank god there’s nothing actually really wrong with me. I’d shudder to think if I’d broken my leg. Barbaro would see a doctor before I would.
Posted by Ryan McGee at March 8, 2007 09:40 PM