Madness Takes Its Toll

Ask the flewellyn, I put this thing to good use!

It's my little pink rhinestoned multitool of calamity and doom! My mom got it for me several years ago. I love this thing!

There's this nifty little CPU monitor thingum that's running as an "always up" window.

It has two lines.

Most people have one.

DualCore, baybee! :D

It finally made it!

Now. Lets see if this one works.
Here's hoping.

You're ready for anything and everything. Good thing, too, because that's exactly what's coming your way. The rest of the world, however -- your closest loved ones in particular -- won't be so adaptable.

o.O

No comment.

So the plane carrying my latest attempt at a computer crashed...

Well, not really. But it was delayed for over an hour because of "mechanical plane failure". The delivery guy got it in Opelika and is now out for delivery with it.

Third time is the charm, right?

Anyone who dares say "trouble comes in threes" can piss off. :P

My third attempt at a computer should be here on Monday.












Buying a computer should not be this hard.

It is obvious that I am stupid for considering ordering a high end machine this time of year.
They're back ordered.

Rush for Christmas, you see.

Can't pick it up at an apple store.
Can't get it sooner.
Can't put a hold on it.
Can't guarantee a ship date.
Can't tell me when they wont be back ordered.
Can't do anything but cancel the order or tell me to make sure someone is here.

Someone has to be here to sign. *here*.

HOW CAN I SIGN WHEN I'M 600 MILES AWAY?

fuckers.

You'd expect for a company as old and popular as apple, they'd be able to handle their own manufacturing processes. Or, heaven forbid, update the "ship time" on their fucking website.

I think if I say anything that resembles a conjugation of "fuck" any more, it's going to permanently tattoo itself on my lips or something. Costumer service, my ass.

I keep making little mistakes causing me to have to re-render the thing I'm working on. SO SLOW. Gar.

Yes. slow.

I'm a bit frustrated with my lack of knowledge about the mac interface. I've been using R's laptop while Hathor renders, and the lack of home, end and skipping by word is really frustrating me. I'm hoping that by using this for a few day sbefore the new computer gets here, I'll have figured it out.

BTW, please don't suggest anymore names for my computer, folks, i'm not naming it until it's here and I've booted it thoroughly the first time. :)

We just got our first netflix order! Woo. Movie night!

My bead order arrived. Hurrah beads. Shiny!

My thinkgeek order STILL has not arrived. Remind me to never use DHL shipping again, because that shit is just annoying as hell. They deliver it to the "closest post office to the buyer, and then USPS takes up to ten business days to deliver it". Well, bloody hell folks, if I wanted it next month, I'd have ordered it next month. I want it NOW that's why I paid for it. Geez.

Please ship now, apple.

I also don't much like the Mighty Mouse. It's not really all that mighty, when compared with the super easy clickabilty of my tablet mouse. Part of tht might be the paper I'm using it on and the lack of mouse pads. Mighty Mouse and other optical mice tend not to like working off of a mouse pad. Especially not on a glass desk. :P

Fortunately I'll be able to use the tablet with the new mac just as easily, so it wont matter so much.

It would appear that Hephaestus is only going to be falling for a few days, as the return shipment back to Amazon is 2 day. He's already in Montgomery.

Can't say I miss him, as I never got to know/like 'em. :P

Now, if only Apple would ship the new one. I took the opportunity to order a better machine, actually, when I ordered from the Apple Store. I got the dual-core 2.3 instead of the dual-core 2.0. The comp chart:

Hephaestus Dual-core 2GHz 1GHz frontside bus 512 ram 160 gig harddrive Nvidia GeForce 6600 - 128 megs video ram

Replacement Dual-core 2.3 1.15 GHz frontside bus 512 ram (that'll be fixed, I have plans to add about 4 gigs to it) 250 gig harddrive Nvidia GeForce 600 - 256 megs video ram

Unfortunately when I ordered Hephaestus, I forgot to add airport to it. I didn't add it to the new one because it would've taken an additional 2-6 days to ship from Apple, and that idea pleased me not at all. So. I'll deal with ethernet until the "plug it in yourself" airport card is supported by the new dual-core architecture.

Now. If apple would only ship already. *pokes apple*

It seems I'm about to follow in the footsteps of iptv_tech and be damning of Amazon.

Today we packed up Hephaestus and hied ourselves up to Alpharetta, to North Point mall, and took it to the Apple Store. The Apple Store which was exceptionally helpful over the phone, unlike the one in Lenox Square.

Unfortunately it didn't take the nice lady very long to realize that not only was it not bad ram, but she couldn't repair it.

Bad logic board. They don't have the part, so even if I had the ultrasupermegawonderAppleCare thingie, I wouldn't have it repaired for days because!!

She said, and I quote "You're the first person with this model Powermac G5 to have a bad logic board."

...

So we brought a still broken Hephaestus home.

I think that if Amazon will give me a full refund, I'm going to send it back, go back to Atlanta, get a G5 Powermac with airport, make them turn it on and off five times, and then bring it home. After seeing it be turned on and off succesfully and completely four or five times.

Alternatively Amazon can ship me a new one.

His name is Hephaestus, and with a logic board like that, he's never going to play for the Olympus team. I'm throwing him off the mountain.

Well.

This has been a nice exercise in frustration, and dissappointment and anger.

I have a shiny new mac! Dual core single processor G5 powermac 2.something ghz.

And!

IT WONT FUCKING BOOT.

It's here it's here it's here it's here it's here it's here it's here it's here it's here it's here it's here it's here it's here it's here it's here it's here it's here it's here it's here it's here it's here it's here it's here it's here it's here it's here it's here it's here it's here !!!!!!!

*goes offline*

Oh oh ohohohohohohohoh!

Nov 11, 2005 - 12:26 am - Opelika AL - In Transit

That means 2-3 hours, tops, till the arrival scan for Opelika, and Opelika is where the delivery truck comes from. W00t!

Nov 10, 2005 -- 1:02 pm - Nashville Tennessee - Are we there yet?

Nov 10, 2005 -- 5:37 AM - Lexington Kentucky - Departure Scan - I'm coming home, ma! We're leaving the warehouse! Woo!

Nov 10, 2005 -- 5:38 AM - Nashville, Tennessee - In Transit - This is a very boring ride.

Nov 9, 2005 -- 1:55 am EST -- Order Placed

Nov 9, 2005 -- 6:24 pm EST -- A single little lonely box is singled out, stuck in another box, and labeled with my name. It's then handed off to shipment people.

Nov 9, 2005 -- 6:54 pm EST -- UPS retrieves a special little labeled box and sticks it in their vehicle in Lexington, Kentucky.

CNet Interview With Bill Gates:

Interviewer: So that would be the philosophical difference between Microsoft and what Google is up to at this point?
Gates: Well, we don't know everything they are up to, but we do know their slogan and we disagree with that.

Google Slogan: Don't Be Evil.

*amused*

( Disclaimer: )

Please find it within your copious heart to either fix every problem with Windows that's ever caused me to have a crash of some sort or another and loose artwork, or perhaps maybe just make it so that Windows is worth the electrons it consists of.

Until such a time comes to pass you will find that I will never again purchase a Microsoft product, upgrade a computer that's running Windows of any version on it, or not thumb my nose at your horribly written operating system.

Thank you very very very much, by the way, for causing me a series of about 6 8 Poser crashes on this evening alone, only to follow it up by discovering that not only have I had to recreate and re-recreate bits of my wonderful scene several times, but that this problem is NEVER going to be fixed. Oh, yes, lets not forget that the entire reason this happened was the lovely bright wonderful upgrade that is Service Pack 2. You can be assured I will be looking into removing it very soon.

I believe me and my new computer which I will somehow acquire the money to purchase before this time next year, will be very happily singing songs about apples.

No Love,
Guaranteed Switcher,
Jeannette