She's alive!

So, as dougygyro can attest, I did bring my Mac Mini to the Apple store... at 9 am yesterday morning! I was the very first customer in the door after it was unlocked. This is indeed the best time to be there as it is much less crowded, and the staff has not been harrased by customers all day yet.

The mac genious who helped me plugged my Mac Mini in, and tried turning it on. Can any of you guess what happend next? Well, anyone who has brought their car in to the mechanic and had the symptom not be there just when you want it to be can guess, it turned on! No problems at all. Sigh... well I wish it had done that for me when when I first tried it. Would have saved me a lot of trouble, to say the least.

I brought it home and plugged it in, and sure enough, it worked fine. Pesky computer playing games with me! I have it set-up at home now, and still have some things to sort out, but at least it will turn on for me.

Well, I also took the opportunity to have him check out my Airport express that I got some time ago and even with assistance from abditus (who suggested I get it in the first place), could not get it to work. Well, once again, it worked fine when he tested it out in the store. Of course, he showed me how to reset it to the factory settings, which I think helped out overall. He input the settings I would need, so when I got home I plugged that in also, and sure enough, was able to make it so I can get online on both my Mini and my laptop in the den. Yay! The only thing that is not working as well is the stereo connection. I got the kit that should allow me to listen to iTunes on the stereo through the Airport Express, and although I am sure I connected it all right, I get nothing.

Well, 2 out of three (and the most important 2) still makes me
happy.

Speaking of a third, I also asked him about my iPod battery, since it does not seem to be holding a charge. He explained my options (pay the one time fee of $39 to get it replaced, pay $59 for the extended warrentee, or go third party), so after some thought, I decided to relinquish my precious over to the nice man, pay for the extended warrantee and hope I get it back before I leave on Monday afternoon. It sucked though not having my iPod when I drove to Walnut Creek this morning for an assignment since I get almost no reception for more than half the way there.

I miss my iPod....

Feast or famin

I spent much of November without work. This sucked in many ways, obviously, but mostly because I now have more work than I can handle realisitically, some of which I really wish I had been working on last month. Currently I am juggling three "clients" who all have work for me this week. A fourth had expresssed interest in needing my help, but I am not surprised (and am in fact releived, now) that she has not manifested that work for me. I know that freelancing/temping (which is what I am doing right now) will always be in flux, but this is such a stark contrast from last month that it stand out to me. I leave for the family trip to Mexico on Tuesday morning, and am staying at my grandparents place the night before so we can all go to the airport together. I am booked today and tomorrow in Walnut Creek, Friday and half of Monday in San Francisco, and all the other time to work on a big project for HEN, which I am doing from home, thankfully.

Plans to go to Dickens Faire on Saturday are looking unlikely, although I am still keen to try, if just to take a break. I am still suffering from various low-grade symptoms from whatever cold that my whole house got last month. My neck hurts enough these days that I need pain killer to sleep at night. I already made an appointment to see my accupuncturist on Sunday, who did some work on my neck last month, and plan to stop in at the clinic to check out my lingering cold symptoms on Saturday, because that is the earliest I am available. I do not relish flying with my sinuses (and therefore my ears) having issues, not to mention just being under the waether while on vacation.

Then there is the question of when am I going to find time to get or make any more holiday gifts? So far I was able to make some of the LJ icons for some of you that I wanted to create, but that is hardly a dent in my list. Sure, people probably know that I am not in the best position to be giving lots of gifts this year, but for me, giving gifts, especialy ones with some thought put into them, is what I enjoy about gift giving holidays. My dad is the same way, so I must get it from him.

Funny how I hardly posted at all in November when I had the time (but not much to post about) and now that I am too busy, I am being posty. I am sure I will think of other things I want to post about soon too.

edit: I got to leave my assignment at 3:45 today, so I am home and going to start on my other project for a a while. What I really want is a nap.

Two more...

Both turned out well. Both of the same person, and someone who I doubt even reads my LJ very often, and hardley ever posts. If you know who it is, comment (it is possible to figure out using her LJ profile).