Rotten Apples
Title courtesy of Alice In Chains, who shockingly enough, released a new album recently with a new lead singer, since Layne Staley passed away way earlier in the decade. I actually saw them open up for Velvet Revolver, which was awesome. The new guy sounded just like Staley. It was also kind of weird, and I'm sure I've said this already before, and most likely here, but Alice in Chains and Stone Temple Pilots (he was the lead singer of Velvet Revolver at the time, before he went back to STP) along with bands like Soundgarden, Nirvana and of course the great Pearl Jam were all sort of responsible for Guns N Roses and all the other hair metal bands of the 80s downfall. And lets just admit it, Velvet Revolver is basically Guns N Roses without the crazy of Axl Rose. Weird scene, but great show.
Anyway... and that's a big anyway segue...
Nothing about Apple is rotten, at least not to me. I have definitely done my part as a good consumer this week of any and all things Apple related. I ordered a new 15" MacBook Pro for myself last week and it got delivered on Wednesday. In fact, I'm typing this entry on my awesome new laptop. I got it for a few reasons, that I shall detail now:
1) My only computer at home was my work laptop, which doesn't belong to me. So I had all kinds of personal stuff on it, like pictures, videos, music, Quicken info, etc. Not that I have plans to leave my job anytime soon (its the furthest thought from my mind right now) but I, and especially Missy, feel better if all of my personal stuff is not on my work computer. So, I got the Mac, and I transferred all of said info onto it. The work laptop now only has work data!
2) With a child on the way I wanted a computer that would be good for archiving said young babies life, and a Mac with iPhoto and iMovie are perfect for that.
3) I just wanted a new Mac. I've been without one since my trust old PowerBook G4's video blew on me some two years ago or so.
Now, I'm back in the Mac fold and loving it. It's taking a little get used to using one again, but its like riding a bike, you never truly forget how to use one. And, its pretty damn cool, powerful, fast, and just overall great. I love it!
I also got something off of my Apple wish list this week as well. A new iPhone 3GS! I was going to ask my parents for one for my birthday at the end of November, but by some stroke of luck (or just some masterful picking) I won the weekly football pool I've been playing in since the beginning of the season. Its run out of the office where my dad, brother and aunt all work (I used to work there too). It's $5 to enter, and my winnings this week was a nice $240 (I was tempted to blow it all on pudding, but I thought better of it!) so I went out and got the phone for myself. The very next day I put my old iPhone, the original 2G one with only 8 GB of storage on eBay and it sold within two hours for the Buy It Now price of $200. So all told, I still come out on top through all of this. Not a bad week for Apple purchases. So why did the stock go down for the past two days? (I realize the two are nowhere's near related!)
What else is going on? Going to have a busy weekend, I think. After my usual Saturday morning ritual we'll be going to Home Depot to order carpet for the baby's room, and a window treatment as well. I'll be sure to post pics of the fully carpeted and window treated room as soon as I can. Once the carpet is in, Missy's dad can help us put in new closet doors. After that we'd like to change out the lighting fixture and put in a ceiling fan. And, while someone is in the attic I really want to run a Cat-6 data cable from the spare bedroom where Missy's PC is located down into the downstairs area so I can wire in Missy's computer. She was using a wireless card in her desktop, but its starting to stink and the few replacement cards I've tried don't even get picked up by Windows. So I'm going with the old standard of just hard wiring the thing in. That'll help, I hope.
We're also going to have dinner with our new next door neighbors. They moved in sometime over the summer, and just had a baby at the beginning of September. Their names? Matthew and Alisa... while we're Matthew and Melissa... weird, right? It should be fun getting to know them a little better I think. It'll be nice to make new friends too.
Other than that, I'm sure there will be plenty else to keep us busy this weekend, or at least me.
Have a great weekend people!