A great mail day

In this day of the Internet and instantaneous service, the trip to the mailbox to see what came in the mail via the US Postal Service has become an exercise in junk mail futility. Then comes a day like today where it was a treasure trove of goodies. It's what makes the mail, the mail. I got the four pieces of ubiqitous junk mail which went directly into recycling but I also got my Sports Illustrated (which you all know I love and are some of the best 2 hours of every week when I read it cover to cover, ok so I don't read the hockey articles), my mortgage bill, the new stickers for my car from the DMV, my absentee ballot for the June California primary, my jury summons (we all know that story) and a letter from my dear friend Jennifer C.. What a day for the mail!!

Back to the Future, but not so much

The logicboard on the beloved G4 iBook that the school lent me died. In the post-mortem analysis that I had with the guys in the tech office gave the most probable cause for the breakdown was the bending that occurred when I would carry the laptop with one hand when the computer was in the open position. But this is only one possible cause. So after all this, the best the school could offer to loan me was the following:

One Orange G3 Clamshell ibook

I am grateful to have any computer at all. This "new" laptop has runs OSX and has all the basic features I need. Alas, it doesn't have a CD insert and only one USB port, but hell, the school was willing to lend me a computer considering I, in the past three years, have killed an iMac by trying to load OSX onto an iMac that wasn't able to handle it, had one stolen and then twice nearly killed the now dead laptop. Thank you HRS Tech Office.