Mmmm, cake

Cut me a slice?

Happiness is AppleCare, at least if they're doing it right

I’ve had my MacBook for about a year and a half now. I’m not big on extended warranties most of the time, but for a laptop? AppleCare. No question.
Until last week I’d used it twice.
Once a DVD (from the library, and due soon!) got stuck in the DVD drive and wouldn’t eject. [...]

A good weekend

Kenny had Wednesday off from school, so I took him to day care. I left work early, picked him up, and took him with me to the Apple Store where I handed over my MacBook for repair. The hard drive’s hosed. Not a disaster. It’s under AppleCare, and nothing on the [...]

Protected: Invitation

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What I bought yesterday

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The clarinet report (edited)

Edited the next morning to clarify a few points.
I did it again. Bought a clarinet on eBay. I can’t possibly pretend I need another one — I have three soprano clarinets already, and I’ve only used one of them the past several months. This one I bought pretty much out of curiosity. [...]

The thrill is gone

Well, I’ve seen Comet Holmes again, tonight. The sky was clear enough in the early evening to get a glimpse — an hour later it had clouded over in the east. But the comet was a very different sight than it was ten days previously. It’s gotten bigger, which makes it more [...]

Beast one

Finished, first of four dinosaurs:

From this pattern. It was decidedly a learning experience. I learned, for instance, how to knit in the round on double pointed needles, and why not to use metal DPNs when starting with six stitches cast on. I learned to look in my knitting bag for a missing [...]

Namesake and nebulosity

We haven’t had many clear nights lately, and on what few we’ve had I’ve forgotten to go out and look. It was mostly clear tonight, though, with a day old moon, and the next several nights are forecast to be cloudy. It was, in other words, possibly our last, best chance. Kenny [...]

It's fixed

Yesterday my MacBook’s power adaptor seemed to die. No light, and the battery wasn’t charging.
This morning I called AppleCare, and they suggested doing a reset of the laptop’s power system. (Unplug it, remove the battery, hold the power button down 5 seconds.) Now things are working again.
So now you don’t have to [...]