Tuesday, October 24, 2006

Tue
24
Oct
2006

Happy Birthday, iPod

Wow, I missed an important birthday yesterday. Happy 5th Birthday to the beloved iPod. It seems like just yesterday Apple introduced you to the world and now look what you're done in that short time. When I'm employed and back on my feet again, I'm going to save my PPP funds to get a new video iPod. I miss mine something fierce.

Joy of Tech iPod 5th Birthday Comic

Saturday, October 21, 2006

Sat
21
Oct
2006

Park Meadows Apple Store

While purusing the Apple employment site for me yesterday, Marcus noticed that they are now hiring for a Park Meadows location. I wonder where over there they are planning to put it? I hope it's not in the mall itself. I hate going into that place. Anyway, sometime in the next few months, looks like we're going to another Apple Store opening!

Saturday, October 14, 2006

Sat
14
Oct
2006

Boulder Apple Store Opening

29th Street Apple Store MapAfter much pushing on Mike's and my parts, we got Marcus to accompany us to the grand opening of the new Apple Store yesterday morning at Boulder's new Twenty Ninth Street mall. You see, Marcus has this thing against Boulder and didn't want to set foot within it. His love of Apple won out, though, so off we all went.

That's a nice outdoor mall. The decor and architecture is really beautiful. Pair that with scenery of the flatirons and it was breathtaking. Someday, after procuring a new job so that I will have money, I think I'll take the trek back up there and check it out in more detail.

I took pictures until Marcus' camera battery died. Go check them out in the Boulder Apple Store Opening Gallery.

In addition, someone else posted pictures from the event. Go check out the photos at Mile Hi Mac. We ended up in 3 or 4 of the shots of the crowds. Look for Mike's bright red Detroit Red Wings cap!

Tuesday, September 05, 2006

Tue
5
Sep
2006

Stupid Power Outage

I hate it when you have a power outage (and your battery backup is dead and you can't afford to replace it) and all of your open Firefox tabs, BBEdit windows, etc. are all gone. *sigh* Wish I had saved some of that stuff at one point.

I hate it how scattered my mind has been lately. I really wish I could concentrate. The first thing I'm doing after I get a job is get new glasses. I didn't realize how much I depended on them until they're gone. It doesn't help that the blogging world seems to think that smaller is better for type size. I thought the problem was the Cinema display I normally surf on with its 1680x1050 screen resolution, but no...my laptop is set to 1024x768 and I constantly have to ctrl+ the type to make it legible. I've thought about leaving snarky comments on such sites, but why? It's their business how they want their sites to look. I need to learn to let things like that go and stop trying to be such a control freak.

Thursday, August 17, 2006

Thu
17
Aug
2006

Bless This Computer

Sent to me from my friend, Cindy:
Dear Lord,

Every single evening
As I'm lying here in bed,
This tiny little Prayer
Keeps running through my head:
God bless all my family
Wherever they may be,
Keep them warm and safe from harm
For they're so close to me.

And God, there is one more thing
I wish that you could do;
Hope you don't mind me asking,
Please bless my computer too.
Now I know that it's unusual
To Bless a motherboard,
But listen just a second
While I explain it to you, Lord.

You see, that little metal box
Holds more than odds and ends;
Inside those small compartments
Rest so many of my friends.
I know so much about them
By the kindness that they give,
And this little scrap of metal
Takes me in to where they live.

By faith is how I know them -
Much the same as you -
We share in what life brings us
And from that our friendships grew.
Please take an extra minute
From your duties up above,
To bless those in my address book
That's filled with so much love.

Wherever else this prayer may reach
To each and every friend,
Bless each e-mail inbox
And each person who hits "send".
When you update your Heavenly list
On your own Great CD-ROM,
Bless everyone who says this prayer
Sent up to GOD.com

AMEN