It’s time for my annual I-hate-daylight-savings post or, more accurately, my I-hate-the-lack-of-daylight-savings-in-the-winter-months post. It’s not that I don’t enjoy stumbling around in the dark at 5:30pm, shivering like a chihuahua as I try to transport containers of wild animal feed around the yard so the area deer, cats, and two opossums named Scooter and Moped will not go hungry, or maybe that’s exactly it, I’m not certain. Or perhaps more likely, it’s Daylight Saving’s cavalier attitude toward the winter months. That’s fine, go ahead and keep thinking you are too good to be saving daylight in the winter and I will continue stumbling over Scooter and Moped, but so help me if I stumble over a skunk I will drive to wherever you are and punch you straight in the neck.
I realize I haven’t posted here in a while but rather than come up with something awesome and hilarious I am going to paste drafts of posts that were started but then came quickly to screeching halts. Here goes.
It’s roughly 736 degrees here right now and the foreseeable future is more of the same. On one hand it’s nice because my lawn no longer grows. On the other hand it’s not so nice because I almost died just walking out to the car. Plus I haven’t got to go biking in weeks for fear of bursting into flames.
I have become so accustomed to using a Mac, which I do 90% of the time, that I forgot how agonizing it can be to not only maintain Windows, but just to use it for mundane tasks. I’m not saying OSX is perfect, but I am saying I would like to light this Windows PC on fire and dance around it.
I got a bit of a sunburn today while swimming with hot chicks. It’s mostly concentrated on my face, which is not pleasant.
And that’s it. Three drafts that barely made it past the first sentence. And for good reason.
I recently discovered something called a Library. Have you heard of these things? It’s a building that you go into and just pick up any book you want, then tell a person behind a desk you are taking it and BAM, it’s yours. For free!!! What a wonderful invention.
At some point in the last two years I started keeping track of the books I read via Shelfari because I found myself accidentally buying a book I had already read but just forgot about. Since I started keeping track, I have read 141 books. At roughly $3.50 each, that is $494.50 I’ve spent on books. Surely there is something better I could have spent that money on like Ultimate Fighting Championship pay-per-view events or candy. Well, the days of wasting my money on books are over because of this whole library thing. So far, I am on book number three. That’s $10.50 right in my pocket as long as you don’t count the fact that you have to buy a $30 card in order to get your free books. I don’t understand the complicated rules and policies, I just know that eventually I will start turning a profit.
Snow Leopard arrived at my door this morning, so naturally I immediately installed it. I did a little cleanup work last night to ensure all would go well, but come on, it’s Apple, all would go well even if I decided to install it underwater.
Once the install was done, 8.22 GB of space was cleared up on my boot drive and the whole system, which is the first Intel version of the Mac Mini, runs a little better, and dare I say even smells and looks better. The few user interface changes that were made are nice and make for more efficient use of the OS, unlike some companies that add features that are less efficient to use. I don’t want to name names, but Flip 3D comes to mind. What a waste of time and resources. If I wanted to push 3 keys at once, then repeatedly push an arrow key until the app I want appears roughly three minutes later and God forbid I accidentally pass it the first time through, then I would be either insane or would just have a lot of time on my hands and nothing better to do. Anyhoo, Snow Leopard is still all of the stuff I loved about Leopard, but smaller and faster. And better smelling. And only $29. And awesome. And I am pretty sure it saved some stray puppies while installing. That’s right, it’s a great operating system with a heart of gold.
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