Update
- Haven’t been exercising, fatter than ever.
- iPod broke. IPOD BROKEN! MUST HAVE AURAL CRACK COCAINE. After dancing through the byzantine self-help routes on the Apple site and after adventures in trying to find a local service provider - much walking to places with hours different than those posted on their websites, i.e. closed, and the great walking adventure to a nonexistent address - I ended up being told that iPods are handled only through the website. Oh, and I had the pleasure of being serviced by a Mac bigot, who was interested in trying to suss out the problem until I told him I was using Windows to synch, at which point he said, “Oh, then you have a virus” and handed the iPod back to me. Yeah, because it couldn’t be, say, a corrupted hard drive or anything like that, which was the conclusion of the very nice Apple service person I dealt with on the phone later that night. Now waiting for the package to mail it back to Apple, but it means that I will have no iPod when I travel next week because:
- Am still contracting to previous company, who have finally, some months later, hired someone to replace me (the entire function of my entire vanished department has been filled in the meantime by a lone, newly-hired tester who I have been aiding from the sidelines). I go back to California next week to train my replacement. One last week then I’m finally done with the old company. Free!
- Doing other interesting stuff, this and that. Some of which I’ll get paid for so that’s cool.
- Fricking heat waves. YUCK.
- Cut most of my hair off and dyed it red. Whee! Next: MORE RED.
- Buying an inordinately sexy new laptop, a Dell XPS M1710. Shipping only late next month because I’m finicky about my hard drive. Sigh. But SEXY NEW LAPTOP OMFG. And it should run WoW even better than my desktop. Muah-haha!