After two days of driving we’ve made it to Temple, TX. We decided to stop a little early today since we were both very tired and we aren’t in a huge hurry. We have get the keys to the apartment tomorrow at 10 am and the cable guy is coming between 1 and 5.
Ok time to get some rest.
– Jeremy
…was one project that was looming over us. We needed to go to our storage unit and get everything set for the movers. Most of the stuff was in tubs so it just needed to be cataloged, shrink wrapped, and numbered… famous last words. So last night right after work we headed over there. It was hot, humid and dusty. It took us 4 hours, but it got done. It was a bit tougher than we had thought to get everything secure.
Nicole and I were both tired and sore. We got home around 10:30. I was beat, but I couldn’t sleep because I was sore. I finally got to bed at 1:30 AM. Ahh… the joys of moving.
– Jeremy
So today we sold our dining table, Nicole wants something smaller, and our TV, we have a smaller Hi-Def TV to replace it. Besides that we moved all the boxes in the dining room and numbered them. (As you can see in the picture.) So far I think we have 16 full boxes. Tomorrow night we are going to the storage unit to get everything over there ready to go. Then Tuesday we’re going to make a strong push to finish up most of th apartment. Wednesday is our wedding anniversary and we are going out to dinner. Thursday we need to make sure all the “loose ends” are cleaned up. Friday the movers come and Saturday we take off for Texas. Monday morning we officially live in Cedar Park, TX.
– Jeremy
Still not a lot of keyboard time on the Mac today, but I did find a program TivoDecode Manager that will transfer and decode my Tivo recordings to watch on my Nano. Which is super cool! Now I can watch my tv shows on the Mac.
– Jeremy
It’s amazing how, we humans, get so attached to our stuff even if it’s basically junk. As Nicole and I are packing up I find it funny to see some of the things we choose to keep. I salvaged a small hard drive from an old Rio Karma MP3 player. I doubt I will ever use it for anything, but it looks cool. Tonight while cleaning out one of our closets I found a pair of ginger bread house kits we got on sale at Joann’s or some craft store, but we didn’t assemble them. I was all for pitching them, but Nicole seems to think we will put them together at some point. All I can think about is how stale they must be.
On the other hand going through the closet, which is mainly gifts from our wedding, it’s cool to see we have some nice stuff that we’ve yet to use. Things for decorating that we won’t have to buy and lots of kitchen stuff.
Well I am exhausted and we have a long day ahead of us tomorrow.
– Jeremy
Ok so it’s been about a week with the Macbook so I figured I would mention few things I love and a few things I don’t like very much:
My likes:
My Dislikes:
That’s all I can think of for week 1. I didn’t get to spend much time on the Mac today, but I did go to the Apple store. I drooled over iPhones, iMacs and Mac accessories. I need to get a keyboard, a mini-dvi to DVI dongle and a USB hub since USB ports are very precious.
– Jeremy
Well with all the packing going on I really haven’t had a chance to use the Macbook too much the past few days. Tonight I did sit down to do a little programming. I was working on something that needs an .htaccess file which is, in this case, a way to tell the web server what to do before it looks for the actual files or location you’ve requested. Like in the case of say web program that allows you to do a search for books a nasty URL might look like: /search.php?autherLastName=King&catagory=horror&year=1987 if you create some htaccess rules you can make the same url look like /search/king/horror/1987 and the rule will tell the web server to pass the variables king, horror, 1987 to the search.php script. I am over simplifying since I am guess most of you could careless.
Anyway Mac’s hide all files that start with a ‘.’ since these are usually system files. So I did some searching and found a way to show the hidden files, but it was a pain. Then I found a site that shows you how to automate the exact same actions using the Automator application that comes with OS X. Now it’s a snap to show or hide hidden files. It was very cool to learn something new.
– Jeremy
So even before I bought the Macbook I was looking at a Flickr pool about laptops with stickers on them. I saw picture someone had posted where they had made a crossbones sticker for their mac. The thought briefly crossed my mind that I could have something similar made and sell them at cost just because they are so damn cool.
Then I found Jobby Roger and found that job was already done. So I ordered a few of them. I laid them a side since I didn’t have the Macbook yet and once I got the Macbook I couldn’t find them. That was till last night.
Besides just looking cool; the idea behind the crossbones is back in the early days the Mac team at Apple flew a pirates flag in front of their offices and Steve Jobs is quoted as having said “It’s better to be a pirate than to join the Navy.”. So slapping a set of crossbones below the apple logo is a way of giving a nod back to the good old days.
Did I mention it looks cool?
– Jeremy
I forgot to mention that I called the power and cable companies in Austin to get everything set up. In fact the cable guy will be coming over the day we get there… to bad we won’t have any TVs, but I will have internet and that’s really whats important.
– Jeremy
