Better than “well” actually.  Things are great. My weather widget says it’s 82 degrees right now, but I think it’s in the 70’s.  It’s AMAZINGLY cool!  K and I had dinner in, then walked to Starbucks for a whatchmacallit, and finally settled on a bench across from the band on Fun Street.  (Live bands every Th, Fr, & Sat, remember?)  Tonight was the Caribbean sound.  They had a guitarist, keyboard, drums, bongos, and steel drum.  It’s a different sound I like mucho.  And the cherry on the sundae was sighting a new Rolls Royce, an Aston Martin DB9, a Ferrari 430, and an Audi R8.  That’s a pretty good haul for a weekday.  I took a few photos, but on the alternate ‘puter they’re too hard to post, so I’ll save them for later.

Hope y’all are having a relaxing evening like we are.  Later, friends.

S

It must be a slow news day.  The news talk is about the pending effort by the Federales to ban texting while driving.  They quote studies that show you’re MUCH more likely to have a wreck if you’re driving and texting.  This makes perfect sense to me.  How can you look up to drive, then down to press those little tiny keys?   “H E L L O  B F F  H O W  R U”……WHAM!!!!!

Call me a Neanderthal (’cause I am), but I really don’t get the idea behind texting in the first place.  I’ve been told there are times, such as in a meeting, when you really can’t make or receive a phone call.  OK, I understand that.  But why would I pick up my PHONE and type out a couple of sentences, even if it’s in geek shorthand, when I can just dial 7 or 10 digits, or 1 speed-dial digit, and TALK on my PHONE…see how this works??  I ask ‘why do you want to text’, and the best anyone has come up with in reply is, “Because I can.”

For that matter, why send an email for some simple chit chat with a friend?  (To forward photos or important stuff like jokes, that’s OK.)  I use email a lot for business purposes because I want a paper trail (electronic trail?) on what I’ve said or been told.  That’s just smart.  And years ago personal emails made sense when the alternative was an expensive long distance phone call.  But now I can call virtually anywhere and talk pretty much as long as I want on my cell phone FOR FREE.  And I guarantee I can talk faster than I can type.

I just don’t get it. 

S

(You know I’m kidding, right?  Sort of.)

We’ve had our iMac for less than a month and it’s apparently had a major hiccup.  This morning I turned it on, the screen lit up, but the cordless mouse didn’t work.  For about 10 seconds I examined the mouse, then noticed there were some lines, not exactly pixels, going horizontally across the screen.  K turned it off, unplugged it, then reversed the process, and it gave us a series of loud beeps.  It’s off now.  After a call to Apple we have an appointment to take it back to the store/service center tomorrow afternoon.  She said it was definitely something to do with the hardware.  I’m assuming it’s covered in warranty.

Right now I’m sitting at home waiting for the cable (actually satellite) guy to show up to fix the TV’s.  Seems they lost their satellite signal.  If these problems come in three’s as it’s said they do, I’m gonna crawl in bed and go back to sleep.  Jeez, I hate maintenance.  I guess it’s just something you can’t get away from.

I’m using the old HP right now, and I guess I/we will be using it sparingly until we get our beloved Apple back up.  Y’all have fun.

S