Regular Blogging Will Resume Shortly
I am writing this on the shiny new MacBook Pro that was delivered yesterday, a full day ahead of schedule. Yesterday was a day of lucky breaks, from the Coyote showing up just as I was leaving for errands to lunch in Portland at PF Chang’s. (Verdict: OK wine, garlic and sauces good, service all right, not sure it’s worth what they’re charging.) I got to wander around Powell’s for a while, and just as I got home what should show up but a lovely little box with this new laptop in it?
My brain hurt with the switch between operating systems, but I’m doing OK today. Thanks to everyone who gave me help and advice! I’m sure I’ll be flailing with other things in the future. Right now I’m trying to make my MSWord display the way I like it. I like the print layout view, but with one page at a time at 100% zoom, the rest of the screen a blank Word window. For some reason this little Mac doesn’t seem to like that. So it’s button-mashing for me for a while. I seem to learn everything on a computer by just playing around and pressing things at random until I get the effect I want. It makes for some interesting times.
So now I’m settling into an afternoon of writing, since I just got home from getting the first hip tat shaded in. Yowch. Generally the easier the outline, the harder the shading is, and vice versa. My other hip tat is outlined, but the shading won’t be so bad. At least, my tattoo artist swears it won’t be. Funny thing, though–these are the easiest tats I’ve ever gotten. The back was gruesome, to say the least; the ribs were ZOMG painful.
Anyway, I doubt you want to hear about my Adventures in Body Modification. I’m still whacking away at that short story. It will be a lot easier now that my workspace has settled down. I can work just about anywhere, I know…but I don’t have to.
It’s a bright sunny day and I have smut to write. Catch you tomorrow for our regular Friday post, and next week more in-depth blogging should resume. For right now, though, let’s see how much trouble I can get these characters into…
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Tags: not worth chewing through the leather straps, short story madness, slight pause for station identification
April 15th, 2010 at 3:05 pm
Happy to hear you took the plunge. And, happy to hear you bought just after a revision came out.
It may take a while to get used to but buying a Mac is worth it in the end.
April 15th, 2010 at 3:13 pm
worth what they’re charging
they arent worth it, I can get better for less most places.
good luck with the Mac.
April 15th, 2010 at 3:15 pm
Oh, Lili, JC and I both went to MacBook Pro notebooks this year too.
I LOVE mine. I really like being able to lighten or darken the backlighting by simply pressing a button on my keyboard (smiles).
JC helped me set up my MS Word page–because at first, it looked very alien.
I’m excited for you. I’m not really into the whole “Mac versus PC” thing at all. A computer is a machine to help us. But I really do like my MacBook. I even watch Netflix-directly-streamed movies on this thing while I knit on the couch.
April 15th, 2010 at 7:04 pm
So happy to hear you got yourself a MacBook Pro!
I adore mine – and don’t worry you’ll get used to it soon ^_^ Just takes a bit. Don’t get me wrong, I still keep a PC for gaming, but I generally use my Mac for everything else. The one I’m typing on at the moment is over three years old and is still going strong, not to mention still being decently fast.
Have fun with it!
April 15th, 2010 at 7:18 pm
So far I’m liking that I didn’t have to download a driver to make it talk to my printer. So it’s already paid for itself in annoyance right there.
April 16th, 2010 at 8:08 am
“I seem to learn everything on a computer by just playing around and pressing things at random until I get the effect I want.”
This is how most techs learn. (see http://xkcd.com/627/ and http://xkcd.com/722/)