Domestic Geek

As promised, I'm beginning my countdown to the delivery of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows to my doorstep on Saturday, July 21st (well, to my community mailbox anyway).

I'm dying to see if any of my predictions about the final book are valid. After the last fiasco of waiting for UPS when it was really coming USPS, I'm ready this year. Hopefully the mail will come early and I can read all day that Saturday. I really wish we had cooler release party events around here. I've been reading about some of the more spectacular ones and it makes the ones here locally seem really lame. Oh, well.

I guess I'm not going to get my Hogwart's scarf done since I've yet to learn to knit, huh? Whoops! Well, maybe by the time the movie comes out for book 7? Yeah, that's the ticket!

I was rebooting my computer today because it was acting a little funny and I noticed something funky about my monitor. It appears there is some sort of burn in or something along the top. It's not because I don't use a screensaver, either. Damn it! Luckily Marcus purchased a two year warranty for the thing, so I hope they'll either fix or replace it. It's not really in the way of anything as it's at the top where the menu bar is, but still...it's a freaking expensive Apple display. *sigh*

Edit: OK, after some research, we're wondering if it is caused by the magnetic iSight stand I have on top of my monitor. We'll see if not using that stand near the monitor for a bit fixes things.

Just wanted to make a quick note to remind myself and everybody else that July 27th is System Administrator Appreciation Day. Show some love to the guy (or gal) that keeps your computers and networks humming along. When they're doing their jobs right, it's usually a thankless job, so please do something nice for yours.

This year's event is the 8th annual one. Read more at SysAdminDay.com.