Wednesday, August 17, 2005
It's Moving Day here in the barnyard
It's Moving Day here in the barnyard, and while that doesn't imply a new residence, it does represent a few new dance moves. And if you can figure out what that sentence means, then you probably understand my tortured brain more than I do. But in any case, Move #1 was to go ahead and order my new iBook. I figured I'd wait a week or so to see if Amazon went ahead and attached a hundred dollar rebate to the new iBook like it has with the last several iBook models, and sure enough they did just that yesterday, so it was time to pull the trigger. For a thousand bucks, with no sales tax, minus a hundred bucks coming back to me, the new iBook is an absolute steal for $900. Now I get to find out if I was right when I concluded that based on my evolving usage, I no longer wanted to lug around a fifteen inch laptop, and would be pleased with a twelve instead. If it turns out I was wrong, then I'll use the new iBook until next year and then trade up for an Intel-based PowerBook when it rolls out.
Move #2, although not Apple-related but important to me nonetheless, was to go ahead and order contact lenses for the first time in what I believe is three or four years. I got my first pair of glasses when I was twelve, to give you an idea of how long I've needed them, and I moved to contacts by the age of fourteen, to give you an idea how just much I disliked wearing glasses. But about three years ago I decided contacts were more trouble than they were worth, and settled for going back to wearing glasses. No more of that. No more settling. It means I'm going to have to get used to wearing contacts all over again just as if it were the first time, which come to think of it wasn't all that easy to do the first time around.
Move #3, not Apple-related either, is that after having been on prescription allergy medication for a little more than half my life, and then having incorrectly concluded that I could probably do without it because I had moved to a less-polluted climate, I've made an appointment to go and get back on it.
So that's it. I'm no longer willing to settle for using a too-slow computer ten hours a day, I'm no longer willing to have a giant metal frame sitting on my face every waking moment, and I'm no longer willing to tolerate my allergies. Like I said, it's Moving Day. And it ain't over yet.
It's Moving Day here in the barnyard, and while that doesn't imply a new residence, it does represent a few new dance moves. And if you can figure out what that sentence means, then you probably understand my tortured brain more than I do. But in any case, Move #1 was to go ahead and order my new iBook. I figured I'd wait a week or so to see if Amazon went ahead and attached a hundred dollar rebate to the new iBook like it has with the last several iBook models, and sure enough they did just that yesterday, so it was time to pull the trigger. For a thousand bucks, with no sales tax, minus a hundred bucks coming back to me, the new iBook is an absolute steal for $900. Now I get to find out if I was right when I concluded that based on my evolving usage, I no longer wanted to lug around a fifteen inch laptop, and would be pleased with a twelve instead. If it turns out I was wrong, then I'll use the new iBook until next year and then trade up for an Intel-based PowerBook when it rolls out.
Move #2, although not Apple-related but important to me nonetheless, was to go ahead and order contact lenses for the first time in what I believe is three or four years. I got my first pair of glasses when I was twelve, to give you an idea of how long I've needed them, and I moved to contacts by the age of fourteen, to give you an idea how just much I disliked wearing glasses. But about three years ago I decided contacts were more trouble than they were worth, and settled for going back to wearing glasses. No more of that. No more settling. It means I'm going to have to get used to wearing contacts all over again just as if it were the first time, which come to think of it wasn't all that easy to do the first time around.
Move #3, not Apple-related either, is that after having been on prescription allergy medication for a little more than half my life, and then having incorrectly concluded that I could probably do without it because I had moved to a less-polluted climate, I've made an appointment to go and get back on it.
So that's it. I'm no longer willing to settle for using a too-slow computer ten hours a day, I'm no longer willing to have a giant metal frame sitting on my face every waking moment, and I'm no longer willing to tolerate my allergies. Like I said, it's Moving Day. And it ain't over yet.
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