The Triumphant Return of the Chicleta

The chiclet is back! The chiclet is back! Actually, the chiclet was returned to me yesterday (yes, folks, that's a 3 day turnaround. I have to hand it to Apple, that was MIGHTY fast) but I was too pooped to blog last night. I wrote about 3 sentences more on the essay entry I've been trying to finish and then decided I'd rather just spend my valuable time f***ing around on the Elfquest website. Nostalgia? Inertia? Procrastination? I honestly don't know what posessed me. And tonight it is still about a gazwillion degrees outside and after a day full of blasting heat (my car thermometer said it was 108 degrees in downtown San Rafael at 3pm today. Seriously) I am just in no mood to actually, you know, think. I can barely drag my ass to the freezer for another popsicle.

Anyway. Back to the chiclet. The coolest part of this whole sending-the-beloved-computer-off-to-be-repaired thing (other than the unexpectedly rapid turnaround on the repair, and the fact that it was all free because I have 3 year Applecare, yay me!) was that Apple not only replaced my failing hard drive, at my request, but also while they were at it, they replaced my keyboard. (For those keeping track at home, I'd already had the keyboard replaced once because most of the letters wore off the keys, and they'd already worn off again but I'd given up. Good thing I'm a touch typist.) Apparently I was not the only one to have had the "vanishing letters" experience, but I'm glad that they replaced it proactively (I didn't have to specifically request it)--given that it was their own bad design that caused it, this pretty much amounts to an owning up to the problem, which I approve of. And they must have found something wonky with my CD-ROM drive, because they replaced that too. Again. (I'd already had them fix it once, I seem to recall. Wonder if this was another one of those quiet "replace a known problem before it happens" things, or just a coincidence?)

There are still a bunch of little adjustments that need to be made, mostly involving restoration of data from my now defunct hard drive as well as making the leap to the Tiger OS (well hey, as long as I'm at it...). But I'm a happy chiclet mama. Who knows, maybe by tomorrow I'll be back up to speed.

On a final note, I have to say it was an interesting couple of evenings sans-chiclet. With no photos to process, blog to update, novel to (supposedly) write, or any of a bunch of other projects to work on, there wasn't much to do but read. (It still really never occurs to me to watch TV. I'm just increasingly out of touch with that entire medium.) I did use Josh's computer one night, just to do a bit of web browsing, but mostly I read, and even went to bed relatively on time. Once.

Speaking of which...