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starshadow_rivaulx) wrote2008-07-14 10:38 pm
starshadow_rivaulx) wrote2008-07-14 10:38 pm
Mostly damp but not a manic Monday
Well, it’s time for another one of those catch-up blog posts. Things have been happening - nothing of the truly dramatic variety, thank heavens. Except maybe that thanks to an unfortunate series of events involving mouse clicks and Monolingual, I borked my language input settings and had to reinstall OSX onto the iBook.
Thankfully, I’d just backed up all my files before the big blunder, so after a long and careful look at the apps I’d accumulated, I figured there wouldn’t be anything lost by rolling everything back to its original factory settings. Lo and behold, I was right! Re-installing the main system files took an hour, maybe two (I was distracted by midnight snacking and stuff on the TV); installing the updates even less. Except for iTunes - I did my grand screw-up on the day of the iPhone 3G launch, and so it will forever be a day of infamy to me. I swear, that one upgrade took a day and a half of waiting before I got through to the servers.
It was worth it, though. I now have what can effectively be called a new iBook G4. Clean system files, and the apps that I’ve used constantly for the past six months and then some. Lean and mean, is my pretty Weiss Schokolade. ::pets::
The app that took the longest to set up was Firefox 3. Not the browser itself, but the slew of extensions that I have now learned are vital to my internet happiness. Because of course, each extension had to be tweaked just so, and passwords had to be entered in the frequently accessed sites, and decisions made on which extensions were worth installing in the first instance.
At this point I am glad to say that the laptop now hums along as if nothing ever happened. Yes, I did run Monolingual again, but this time I just stuck to removing languages and nothing else.
Still, when I compare the ease of getting this iBook up and running as compared with the troubles I had with various flavors of Windows? A day and a half to get back to normal is a pretty good thing.
* * * * * *
In other news. The caretaker of the family cemetery plot called on Saturday to say that someone had stolen two of our padlocks. ??? So Ramon and I went out on Sunday with the spare padlocks and keys, and after turning them over to Mang Jose, we went to the Mall of Asia, which we haven’t seen in what seems like ages.
Lunch at Mann Hann, of course, which was filling and very reasonably priced. Found myself a craft shop to pop into while Ramon took a look at DVDs on sale, with the obvious result that I emerged with two more skeins of yarn for the stash. ::looks innocent:: I told Ramon that we weren’t going to even think about doing errands - we were just going to ramble about and do whatever fancy dictated for a change.
This line of thinking led us first to Watson’s, where I picked up cotton buds and vitamin C syrup. Then into BookSale, which turned out to be a black hole for my wallet...bought three Harlequin/Mills&Boon novels, and three computer books. One is for Mac OS X, one is for the Palm, and the other is supposed to tell you how to hack an iPod. Since my iPod mini has been gathering dust for an obscenely long time, that last manual might help revive its usefulness. The Mac OS X manual taught me something about getting a Palm to work with iSync that I wish I’d known the first time I was trying to get them to talk to each other. So even if the books are old, there are bits of information that are still quite useful!
Then before I ended up spending all our money in BookSale, we went up to UCC Coffee to relax, go over our purchases, read the papers, and have ourselves coffee and mango cheesecake. From there, I could see Ramon was looking a bit peaked, so we got ourselves to the car and went home. That was a very good day indeed.
* * * * * *
Today was just as busy, though it was difficult getting myself jump-started, what with the rainy weather. There was this huge 10-minute downpour that I thought would escalate, but instead it turned to sunshine and cool breezes by the time Ramon and I took Dad to Glorietta so he could get his driver’s license renewed.
The game plan went very well: Ramon escorted Dad to the LTO office at the MRT station, and I hustled through the supermarket and the concourse to grab orchid food and groceries. Put the bags and in the car, and was working my way towards the LTO office when Ramon sent me an SMS to tell me that Dad was the last applicant to be processed before the lunch break. So instead of meeting them at the LTO, I snagged us a table in Max’s, where we had an excellent lunch to suit everyone’s taste.
Back to the LTO after lunch, with me to do escort duty while Ramon went to buy a paper. Then what does my beloved eejit of a husband do but climb 40 steps because some LRT person decided to shut down the bloody escalator. ::dies:: He looked *wretched* when he arrived at the LTO, I nearly had palpitations of my own. Fortunately, having the newspaper and being in a cool environment helped him recover his composure, and he was good to go by the time Dad was finished.
I managed to flit about the MRT station and wound up with a copy of Norman Mailer’s Ancient Evenings. The back blurb said something about the book being better than The Executioner’s Song (O RLY?) and since it’s a book about Ancient Egypt, of course I had to pick it up. ::wry grin::
Picked up the menfolk at the back door of SM Makati, then off we went to Greenbelt. While Dad got himself a haircut at Bruno’s, Ramon and I managed to get Ma’s vitamins from Healthy Options, and then in National Book Store, I bought an extra ball of the yellow yarn I’m using on the sock project - just to be on the safe side. Ramon went to Rustan’s while I was at NBS, and he and Dad and I all connected at Ace Hardware. I am now happy to say that there are spare padlocks in the house now, and our bug lamp lights once more. ::bounce::
Dad treated us to merienda at Via Mare - bibingka and cafe au lait for me! Ramon ordered pancit molo which turned out to be good for three people, so he split with me and Dad; and Dad had sago at gulaman.
Then home, to make progress on knitting, feed the cats, fire up the iBook and catch up on my online life. Watched the tail end of the Miss Universe pageant with the parents, and that brings me up to date for the moment.
::offers virtual red wine and baked mac-n-cheese to all those who have read this far::
::hugs friends list::
:)
Thankfully, I’d just backed up all my files before the big blunder, so after a long and careful look at the apps I’d accumulated, I figured there wouldn’t be anything lost by rolling everything back to its original factory settings. Lo and behold, I was right! Re-installing the main system files took an hour, maybe two (I was distracted by midnight snacking and stuff on the TV); installing the updates even less. Except for iTunes - I did my grand screw-up on the day of the iPhone 3G launch, and so it will forever be a day of infamy to me. I swear, that one upgrade took a day and a half of waiting before I got through to the servers.
It was worth it, though. I now have what can effectively be called a new iBook G4. Clean system files, and the apps that I’ve used constantly for the past six months and then some. Lean and mean, is my pretty Weiss Schokolade. ::pets::
The app that took the longest to set up was Firefox 3. Not the browser itself, but the slew of extensions that I have now learned are vital to my internet happiness. Because of course, each extension had to be tweaked just so, and passwords had to be entered in the frequently accessed sites, and decisions made on which extensions were worth installing in the first instance.
At this point I am glad to say that the laptop now hums along as if nothing ever happened. Yes, I did run Monolingual again, but this time I just stuck to removing languages and nothing else.
Still, when I compare the ease of getting this iBook up and running as compared with the troubles I had with various flavors of Windows? A day and a half to get back to normal is a pretty good thing.
* * * * * *
In other news. The caretaker of the family cemetery plot called on Saturday to say that someone had stolen two of our padlocks. ??? So Ramon and I went out on Sunday with the spare padlocks and keys, and after turning them over to Mang Jose, we went to the Mall of Asia, which we haven’t seen in what seems like ages.
Lunch at Mann Hann, of course, which was filling and very reasonably priced. Found myself a craft shop to pop into while Ramon took a look at DVDs on sale, with the obvious result that I emerged with two more skeins of yarn for the stash. ::looks innocent:: I told Ramon that we weren’t going to even think about doing errands - we were just going to ramble about and do whatever fancy dictated for a change.
This line of thinking led us first to Watson’s, where I picked up cotton buds and vitamin C syrup. Then into BookSale, which turned out to be a black hole for my wallet...bought three Harlequin/Mills&Boon novels, and three computer books. One is for Mac OS X, one is for the Palm, and the other is supposed to tell you how to hack an iPod. Since my iPod mini has been gathering dust for an obscenely long time, that last manual might help revive its usefulness. The Mac OS X manual taught me something about getting a Palm to work with iSync that I wish I’d known the first time I was trying to get them to talk to each other. So even if the books are old, there are bits of information that are still quite useful!
Then before I ended up spending all our money in BookSale, we went up to UCC Coffee to relax, go over our purchases, read the papers, and have ourselves coffee and mango cheesecake. From there, I could see Ramon was looking a bit peaked, so we got ourselves to the car and went home. That was a very good day indeed.
* * * * * *
Today was just as busy, though it was difficult getting myself jump-started, what with the rainy weather. There was this huge 10-minute downpour that I thought would escalate, but instead it turned to sunshine and cool breezes by the time Ramon and I took Dad to Glorietta so he could get his driver’s license renewed.
The game plan went very well: Ramon escorted Dad to the LTO office at the MRT station, and I hustled through the supermarket and the concourse to grab orchid food and groceries. Put the bags and in the car, and was working my way towards the LTO office when Ramon sent me an SMS to tell me that Dad was the last applicant to be processed before the lunch break. So instead of meeting them at the LTO, I snagged us a table in Max’s, where we had an excellent lunch to suit everyone’s taste.
Back to the LTO after lunch, with me to do escort duty while Ramon went to buy a paper. Then what does my beloved eejit of a husband do but climb 40 steps because some LRT person decided to shut down the bloody escalator. ::dies:: He looked *wretched* when he arrived at the LTO, I nearly had palpitations of my own. Fortunately, having the newspaper and being in a cool environment helped him recover his composure, and he was good to go by the time Dad was finished.
I managed to flit about the MRT station and wound up with a copy of Norman Mailer’s Ancient Evenings. The back blurb said something about the book being better than The Executioner’s Song (O RLY?) and since it’s a book about Ancient Egypt, of course I had to pick it up. ::wry grin::
Picked up the menfolk at the back door of SM Makati, then off we went to Greenbelt. While Dad got himself a haircut at Bruno’s, Ramon and I managed to get Ma’s vitamins from Healthy Options, and then in National Book Store, I bought an extra ball of the yellow yarn I’m using on the sock project - just to be on the safe side. Ramon went to Rustan’s while I was at NBS, and he and Dad and I all connected at Ace Hardware. I am now happy to say that there are spare padlocks in the house now, and our bug lamp lights once more. ::bounce::
Dad treated us to merienda at Via Mare - bibingka and cafe au lait for me! Ramon ordered pancit molo which turned out to be good for three people, so he split with me and Dad; and Dad had sago at gulaman.
Then home, to make progress on knitting, feed the cats, fire up the iBook and catch up on my online life. Watched the tail end of the Miss Universe pageant with the parents, and that brings me up to date for the moment.
::offers virtual red wine and baked mac-n-cheese to all those who have read this far::
::hugs friends list::
:)
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They stole padlocks?? WTF was the point of that?
Weird.
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The locks are a small loss, though. Our caretaker freaked me out when he said it was a good thing the black granite headstones for my grandparents were still in place. ::goosebumps:: The world is going nuts, I tell you.
::squishes::