Jim just returned from some errands in the city bearing an armful of lovely roses. The actual price was not too much, but the sacrifice was great due to road blocks in the city. Not one of the times you want to be out in the traffic. Poor Jim. Once again we must accept the bad with the good in Mexico. Love the weather, love the cheap flowers, love the fresh produce, but we don't love the road blocks.
Similarly I suppose I must accept the good days and the bad days with my other love: the MacBook.
It was working just fine until I greedily decided I should upgrade my system to Snow Leopard and then install i-Life. That's just what I needed to produce a simple but hopefully impressive multi-media program in honor of our 25 years on the mission field.
After one day of working with the new i-Photo to sort old photos, the whole photo library crashed. That was depressing, but friends assured me that the wonderful apple support people would soon get me back up and running. That was a couple of weeks ago. Since then I have spent days of my life talking to my new best friend, Marshall, trying to diagnose and remedy the problem.
Today I have waited by the phone and computer since morning waiting for him to call and help me again. (He probably called in sick to go buy his girlfriend some roses or something.) This was after many hours yesterday (yes, on a Sunday!) being taken step by step through another possible fix. In all, I think I have rebuilt my photo library three times and reinstalled i-Life twice. Late last night i-Photo crashed again. So sad. I will spare you all the details. I just hope I get my money back when it's all working again.
Rather than leave you with this depressing comment, I thought I'd tell you a couple of true but embarrassing Mac stories. This computer has publicly humiliated me on more than one occasion.
One quirky thing you non-Mac users should know is that if you accidentally move the curser to the lower right corner of the screen, it brings up a bunch of optional gadgets such as a dictionary/thesaurus, weather bar, calculator, and conversion table. I actually love this when used intentionally. I frequently use the conversion table to calculate how much something costs in U.S. dollars, or how high to cook something in my Celsius oven.
Yesterday we had church here at our house, and Jim was trying to get the podcast sermon on the big screen via the video projector. Suddenly the pop-up screens appeared, and I about choked seeing the weight conversion chart appear. Apparently the last thing I had calculated was my weight in pounds from kilograms. That was pretty embarrassing! It would have even been worse a few months ago when the number would have been 11 kilos, (or precisely 24.250849 pounds) more. Gulp!
Another Sunday an even more embarrassing thing happened in the middle of the sermon at our house. Jim was attempting to adjust the volume, and accidentally hit the wrong part of the trackpad, again causing the gadgets to pop up over the pastor's face. Only what popped up that time was a single yellow sticky note with a rather private (not exactly G-rated) welcome back note from me to Jim after one of his longer trips. Oops.
Thankfully people quickly looked back to find out why I had shrieked (expecting to see a scorpion or something), instead of reading the racy message on the big screen.
Oh the joys of living in the computer age!
6 comments:
This could only happen to you, Jamie. Ha! I love it.
I hope you get your photos back up and working. That must be so frustrating.
ugh on the photos and hey you were just showing that your marriage is still strong :)
Thanks. Hopefully today I can get the problem fixed. This is beyond ridiculous now.
I just thought of a line from The Importance of Being Ernest when the one single man says how thoroughly disgusting it was how the one man flirts with his own wife. haha.
Oh, that is too funny! Hmm.. note to self - watch where you leave racy notes!
(There is a quiet part of me that is thankful that I am not the only missionary wife that leaves racy notes for her husband!)
Hey, by the time you get that computer fixed, you'll be a techie yourself!
Glad I can be of service, helping others avoid the pitfalls of life. Ha!
Would you believe the problem still isn't solved? It's been almost a whole month now. Today, Lord willing... is my daily mantra.
Hilarious! It's good to know I'm not the only one that these things happen to. But congrats on the 11 kilo loss!!! That kilo stuff is nice, make you sound like you weight less. I may convert to kilos myself. Lisa~
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