07.21.00
More Fun
Jul 21 Fri (10 AM)
It’s been a rough few weeks. Things have been prety hard at work, and we’re still getting settled in from the move. Amy’s been putting a lot of work into etting the kitchen setled in, and now I can set up the boxes for the recycling and such. Now it’s time to get the Bathroom organized, then we can tackle the small bedroom/office/personal room/whathaveyou that has our old bed (that we’ll be taking to Goodwill), a desk, the cat’s chair (it’s an old chair that we’ve sacrificed to their claws), plus lots of other stuff. I’d like to setup my older Macs in there and have some room to play around with some networking ideas that I’ve got. I know amy would like to have a room that she can call her own as well. So we’ll work out something.
Then we can turn our attention to the closets. Oops, I forgot that we’ve still got some stuff in storage that we can get out, now that we’ve got more room. That’ll take $50 off of our monthly expenses.
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Apple’s news about the Dual Processor G4s and the G4 Cube was pretty good. I’ve caught bits and pieces of the keynote on Quicktime, and it woulds like it was a good presentation. It’s cool to see the new stuff, but i think Apple’s dropped the ball on the mouse still. Optical’s nice, but the scrollwheel and the extra buttons are good stuff that has been rejected by Apple, to their detriment. However, maybe they’re just trying to open the market to third-party mice.
I would like to get one of the new keyboards to use at work. The USB->ADB converter has been pretty flaky, so I figure the getting an actual Apple Full size USB keyboard might be just the ticket. But I want to have a hands-on first. I’ll be checking out at one of the local retailers before I make up my mind.
Amy and I have been looking for something to replace her 6400, which is surprisingly slow. I think there are some serious bottlenecks with the processor and the hard drive access. That G4 Cube is looking very very cool. I think, though it’s not got any room to upgrade the internals, we sould be able to do just fine with the USB and Firewire ports. We’ve got a SCSI Zip Drive and Scanner that would be out of the loop, though one of those SCSI -> FireWire adapters might handle them.
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I’ve finaly got back on track organizing my to-do list and getting things wrapped up. I’ve got my notes collected into a single pile and soon I’ll have my filing system set up in the new apartment so I can keep things clean and such. Lack of organization is a serious bad thing for me. I’ve noticed that the more disorganized things are, the more stressed out I get. I think I’ve got a focus problem. If there are too many things for me to focus on, I get overwhelmed on a subconcious level. Claning things up usually means organized stacks of chaos, and once I’ve gotten that far I can tackle things easier.