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Practice this morning was a sort of fine line between terrible and great. Terrible, because I'm missing part of my toenail and that sucks. Great, because everyone was in a good mood and skating well, and half a dozen new people showed up, three in full practice gear so they could participate. Two of the new people were obviously experienced skaters, though some of their moves betrayed that they were hardcore rollerbladers (there's a kind of waggle to their stride when they notice that their wheels aren't all one behind the other, and the dead giveaway is when they go to use the heel brakes that ohshit aren't there AAGH)-- one of them was supremely fast and impressively nimble.
( yesterday: Wilsons! )
Hi, Kevin! (I know he reads this. I think Craig does too, as he's left a comment or two.) Your kids are adorable but I'm not buying any of them off you. But we should all hang out more often. I have been meaning to throw a party since I moved into this house and have not yet. Which is sort of par for the course, as far as my life goes.
This afternoon ( record collection time! )
Oh, one more thing I should blog. Anyone considering a Macbook but feeling undecided, I would advise you to wait a little bit. Obviously there are some bugs still left in them, and in the operating system. Z is having very bad problems with the power management on his book-- the thing will just shut down for no reason, and then he'll push the power button to tell it to start up, and it will make the noise of the drive spinning up-- "GzzshhZZHHzooweeoot" and then, weirdly, will emit a strange high-pitched sort of sigh-- "Eehh." and fail to start up. It did this last night while I was sitting next to him. Meanwhile I had put my Macbook to sleep, and while he was trying to boot his, I opened mine up to wake it up, and it brought up the screen, but was frozen. Nothing would respond, not the mouse or the keyboard. When I pushed the power button to restart it, it turned the monitor's light off, but I could dimly see that the monitor itself was still on, and there was a dialogue box on it. But I couldn't actually interact with the thing at all. Putting it to sleep and waking it did not help. I finally held the button down until it restarted. Which it did-- "GzzshhZZZHHzooweeoot" and then actually did start up, proving that the noise is normal. Whereupon it was fine, but still. Why do I have such bad juju with monitors?
We have extended warranties. (Even without the extended warranty, this is covered by the original, automatic 1-year one.) Apple will fix it. But this is a new architecture (they're both the Intel chips) with a new OS, so, we're not horribly surprised. OK, I am, but I am horribly surprised on a daily basis by things like gravity, so this is hardly an indicator. I'll keep watching mine to see how it does. Z really does need to get his repaired, though. Once he's done with this crazy week, and has some time, he'll be getting it sent out for warranty repair.
So to you all I say, give it a few more months and wait for the next major OS upgrade, and the kinks should be out by then. Because it's a sweet machine, but there are most definitely kinks in it.
( yesterday: Wilsons! )
Hi, Kevin! (I know he reads this. I think Craig does too, as he's left a comment or two.) Your kids are adorable but I'm not buying any of them off you. But we should all hang out more often. I have been meaning to throw a party since I moved into this house and have not yet. Which is sort of par for the course, as far as my life goes.
This afternoon ( record collection time! )
Oh, one more thing I should blog. Anyone considering a Macbook but feeling undecided, I would advise you to wait a little bit. Obviously there are some bugs still left in them, and in the operating system. Z is having very bad problems with the power management on his book-- the thing will just shut down for no reason, and then he'll push the power button to tell it to start up, and it will make the noise of the drive spinning up-- "GzzshhZZHHzooweeoot" and then, weirdly, will emit a strange high-pitched sort of sigh-- "Eehh." and fail to start up. It did this last night while I was sitting next to him. Meanwhile I had put my Macbook to sleep, and while he was trying to boot his, I opened mine up to wake it up, and it brought up the screen, but was frozen. Nothing would respond, not the mouse or the keyboard. When I pushed the power button to restart it, it turned the monitor's light off, but I could dimly see that the monitor itself was still on, and there was a dialogue box on it. But I couldn't actually interact with the thing at all. Putting it to sleep and waking it did not help. I finally held the button down until it restarted. Which it did-- "GzzshhZZZHHzooweeoot" and then actually did start up, proving that the noise is normal. Whereupon it was fine, but still. Why do I have such bad juju with monitors?
We have extended warranties. (Even without the extended warranty, this is covered by the original, automatic 1-year one.) Apple will fix it. But this is a new architecture (they're both the Intel chips) with a new OS, so, we're not horribly surprised. OK, I am, but I am horribly surprised on a daily basis by things like gravity, so this is hardly an indicator. I'll keep watching mine to see how it does. Z really does need to get his repaired, though. Once he's done with this crazy week, and has some time, he'll be getting it sent out for warranty repair.
So to you all I say, give it a few more months and wait for the next major OS upgrade, and the kinks should be out by then. Because it's a sweet machine, but there are most definitely kinks in it.
