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Looks like I’m going to be going to Nurse Betty with Mary and my sister soon.

I’m also starting on the Behind the Curtain project right now. It probably won’t be super exciting, but it should be kind of interesting. I’m looking forward to seeing what every one else puts up as well.

I’ve been checking on my MacOS X order status quite often and the page shows that it finally shipped today. While I’m definitely excited about that my enthusiasm is a little bit tempered by the tracking number they posted. Despite the fact that the page lists FedEx as my shipper (and I did pay extra for speedy delivery), I’ve ordered enough stuff over the years to know that a package with a tracking number beginning with 1Z followed by a long string of numbers is coming UPS. I really don’t care how it comes as long as it comes in a timely fashion, but a mix up like this doesn’t exactly put me at ease.

Well, I ordered MacOS X beta this morning, but it took repeated efforts as store.apple.com seemed a bit overwhelmed. Hopefully it’ll arrive around the beginning of next week.

My PowerBook cpu overheated last night around 1AM, I guess it was up past it’s bedtime. The weird thing is that the fan never came on. It froze and then crashed with an address error everytime at startup. It seems fine this morning, but I’ll need to keep a better eye on things so I can avoid this problem in the future.

Well, Joel’s latest column pretty much addresses my gut feeling about the :CueCat.

Yes, I’m still alive. Just wanted to let all fifteen of my regular readers know. Heh.

It’s funny that a couple people have mentioned getting the new cuecat scanner with the latest copy of Wired. I got my copy of Wired last week, but no cool electronic gizmo to go with it.

Mindvision released an update to MindControl, my application launcher (and more) of choice. If you’re a Mac user and you haven’t given this a whirl I highly recommend you download it and try it out.

Speaking of updates, BBEdit 6.0 was released today. I’m still deciding whether or not this will be an upgrade I make. There’s a new competitor called Pepper that’s very interesting and it already offers python syntax coloring support.

I turn the big two seven today.

Talking to my dad yesterday at my day-early birthday gathering at my parents, I mentioned that it had occurred to me that morning that he had won his first high school basketball state championship as a coach at the age of 27. He replied that it just goes to show that having talented players is more important than having a good coach. Unfortunately I failed to point out at the time that twenty years later when he won his second state championship as a coach, he did it with a team that overall talent-wise probably wasn’t even in the top five he’s coached. Considering the overall talent of his returning team this year probably falls in the top three he’s had in 31 years of coaching, I think we can expect an interesting season.

… it was like watching someone try to explain quantum physics to a goat.

Alright! It looks like processor card has been pretested now as well. In a perfect world they would get it upgraded and shipped out tomorrow. Oh well, I’ll get by. As it turns out my borrowed processor is around 1Mhz faster than the original (at least according to Gauge Pro).

Looks like Newer has successfully received my cpu. They’re scheduled to work on it tomorrow so I imagine it’ll get shipped on Friday and arrive Monday. I definitely like the fact that you can track the whole process on their website. Next week should be pretty awesome- first I get my cpu upgraded and then a couple days later MacOS X beta will be out. Sweet!

My PowerBook’s brain will soon be flying across the country to Wichita, Kansas, but luckily I had a spare at work I could swap in while I’m waiting for it to be upgraded. The whole process went pretty smoothly on my end. Now hopefully there won’t be any glitches for the folks at Newer. It’s going to be really cool to have a 466Mhz PowerBook.