Happy New Year
Sun, 2005-01-02 04:37 — jrearick
Welcome to the new year. I can't believe the year 2000 was 5 years ago. Where are the flying cars already?
Anyway, I got my dad all set up, finally, with OS X. Dad had to be hovering over my shoulder most of the time I was working on rebuilding his computer. He would always ask me questions that were difficult to answer in a way that didn't confuse him after about 20 minutes of explaining. A task that would normally take me 10 minutes to complete took 1 hour to explain what I was doing. He still needs to learn a lot, but now that I have his new Palm Pilot syncing with Address Book and iCal and Mail.app he is really impressed. Now I have to set up my mom and teach her how to do it.
Speaking of new technology, Colin and I went down to the Apple Store briefly New Year's Eve so that he could pick up an iTrip and an iSkin for his iPod and I could exchange the 17" ADC display for a 20" Apple Cinema Display. I had to invest about $500 of my own money to do it, but man, it is so cool :-D. I also got an iSkin for my iPod while I was down there.
After spending maybe 15 or 20 minutes taking care of business at the Apple Store, Colin and I headed over the the New Year's party Meri invited us to. It was nice to talk with Colin, Walter, and Meridith a bit. I didn't get to really know our hosts Stephanie and Austin too much. I got back home around 1:30 or 2:00 in the morning.
Today, I broke out my new Cinema Display and finally assembled the office chair that I got for my birthday. You can see my new office setup in my photo gallery now.
Anyway, I should be getting to bed here pretty soon. Tomorrow I plan on cleaning the basement. My parent's came down today to find a bunch of records for the turntable and discovered the mess I made from assembling the chair, unpacking from the trip, and parts of the mess that they created when taking up the bookcase.
Happy New Year!
Anyway, I got my dad all set up, finally, with OS X. Dad had to be hovering over my shoulder most of the time I was working on rebuilding his computer. He would always ask me questions that were difficult to answer in a way that didn't confuse him after about 20 minutes of explaining. A task that would normally take me 10 minutes to complete took 1 hour to explain what I was doing. He still needs to learn a lot, but now that I have his new Palm Pilot syncing with Address Book and iCal and Mail.app he is really impressed. Now I have to set up my mom and teach her how to do it.
Speaking of new technology, Colin and I went down to the Apple Store briefly New Year's Eve so that he could pick up an iTrip and an iSkin for his iPod and I could exchange the 17" ADC display for a 20" Apple Cinema Display. I had to invest about $500 of my own money to do it, but man, it is so cool :-D. I also got an iSkin for my iPod while I was down there.
After spending maybe 15 or 20 minutes taking care of business at the Apple Store, Colin and I headed over the the New Year's party Meri invited us to. It was nice to talk with Colin, Walter, and Meridith a bit. I didn't get to really know our hosts Stephanie and Austin too much. I got back home around 1:30 or 2:00 in the morning.
Today, I broke out my new Cinema Display and finally assembled the office chair that I got for my birthday. You can see my new office setup in my photo gallery now.
Anyway, I should be getting to bed here pretty soon. Tomorrow I plan on cleaning the basement. My parent's came down today to find a bunch of records for the turntable and discovered the mess I made from assembling the chair, unpacking from the trip, and parts of the mess that they created when taking up the bookcase.
Happy New Year!
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