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Is there something wrong?
What’s the deal? Its only four weeks to Halloween and I haven’t seen any Christmas decorations in the stores yet. Maybe I just don’t get out enough.
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Turn back now while you still can.
The highlight of the week came on Saturday. I decided to do something bold. Yes, I decided to load OS X (10.2) on my four year old iMac sitting in our living room. No, you did not hear me wrong, I did it. Not all that interesting you say? Go read something else.
But wait, it gets better. The new OS has allowed us to venture into a realm that we’ve only dared to dream about until now: printer sharing. I can’t recall how many times Cheryl has been using the laptop and called out, “aghhh!!!, I want to print something but I can’t because I’m not hooked up to a printer!!!” (Right now Cheryl is thinking to herself, “well I can, you’ve only let me use the thing about twice since we got it nine months ago!”) Well agonize no more my sweet bride! I moved our UPS (uninterupted power source) to the living room to accompany our new iMac X and printer, and now printer sharing is as simple as saying “rendezvous.” O.K., you caught me (those damn French). It didn’t go off without a hitch, but then nothing I do does. But, just when things seemed their darkest, there was a glorious moment when I had my laptop in the kitchen, asked it to print, and the printer set up in the living room whirred to life. I skipped into the other room, picked up the print out and held my trophy high for all to see. “It looks like something you printed”, Cheryl says in a tired voice. Sometimes discovery is a lonely business.
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That’s jazz!
We’re sitting here in the family room; I’m typing this entry, jazz playing on the stereo, the lights off, the drapes closed, and my supposedly sick daughter has risen and begun to spin wildly on the desk chair not three feet from my exposed knee. She gets up suddenly, the dark room undoubtably still spinning in her head, and she asks, “where are we daddy?” That’s a good question Beth.