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Posted By Kathleen David on August 5, 2004
I am doing the Dance of Joy. In my e-mail this morning I find a note from Apple Repair that my machine has been repaired and is on its way back to me. Happy Happy Joy Joy. This means I might see it Friday before the weekend which would make me very happy. I think Peter could use his computer back too.
Caroline ate peas and potato last night. I have to agree that she may have been listening to what the Doctor said and comprehended more than we will ever know. My back is not at its best this morning. I can feel the twinge that is my warning sign to slow down and put down heavy objects.
Today I need to make a grocery store run for the weekend. One thing I do like about a flexible work schedule is that I can shop when the store is practically empty and restocked. I tend to shop for food twice a week so we have fresh fruits and vegetables in the house. Milk is costing quite a bit these days. The Long Island produce is in the stores now and at the farm stands which makes for yummy salads and veggie dishes. I do miss the Dekalb Farmer
I reiterate. Why in the world would anyone want to raise a kid on this planet?
Glad to hear about your computer.
Hope you don’t mind it I tell you what happened to me yesterday.
What you don’t know about me is that I love to go to the State
Surplus Store and buy their old computers. I can’t afford the new ones.
Problem is I’m a Mac person, so there aren’t that many computers on sale
there. But there are loads of PCs. Anyway, this week I was supposed to go to
the beach for a much deserved vacation. My last one was three years ago.
Anyway, if you follow the weather forecasts, you know that North Carolina
just got grazed by a hurricane named Alex. So my vacation was literally
washed out. So today I decided to go see what the Surplus Store had. When I
got there, there was only one Mac computer, and like most people in the real
world everyone was ignoring it. I snatched it up immediately and took it
home. There wasn’t even supposed to be a hard drive in the computer.
Turns out it was a PowerPC 333Mhz, with 384 megs of RAM, a CD Rom Drive, and
Zip drive a 9 Gig hard drive LOADED with software that I didn’t already
have, including Mac OS X.2 and Photoshop 7.0. I also got iTunes, iLife, and
iMovies. So now I can download music from the Apple store, (which I couldn’t
do before).
So I got a faster machine, ( I know 333 Mhz doesn’t sound very fast by today’s standards, but I mostly write with my computers, and even my 25Mhz Mac classic was fast enough for that. I also got close to a grand or more of software. Incidentally I just discovered I also got a previous version of Photoshop, 6.0