More Techno Woes
Dec. 2nd, 2011 10:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
multipurposegoddessSo, since I got the phone fixed, the Mac Mini has been acting up, all slow and unresponsive. Which is not a huge problem, it doesn't have a lot to do, EXCEPT that is where I keep the iTunes that knows what's up with all my podcasts. It is surprising how much not being able to follow my podcast routine messes up pretty much everything.
I should either upgrade the mini (it can't upgrade to Lion and I'm not sure all the software upgrades are as backwards compatible as they ought to be) or rely on it less, probably, but I am emotionally attached to my home network set up. Sigh. It's going to be one of this cases where a big change is psychologically easier than a small one, I have a feeling.
Anyway, the point is, not yet back on track productivity-wise. At all. But I don't care, so there's that.
Off to the annual Meyer's outlet sale , not that I need more kitchen stuff, but it's fun to look.
Edited on 12/3 to add: that was an exercise in buying stuff I don't need. Okay, the 3 qt casserole and Rachel Ray bakeware will be useful, but rechargeable milk frother? I mean, I will use the hell out of it, probably, but I had a not rechargeable weak-ass milk brother. Stove top espresso? Really didn't need. I have so many coffee making devices it is ridiculous. And yet, making espresso on the stove top right now and it is nice to have that option.
But the silliest purchase is, of course, the laser probe combo thermometer. I can't explain it except (a) it was on sale and (b) it's a LASER that is somehow a THERMOMETER. I HAD TO HAVE IT.
And now I know that today my garage is 5 degrees cooler than my kitchen. The inside of the freezer is below zero. A cast iron frying pan on the induction burner set to hold a temperature of 275F pretty much does.
The mini, btw, still having problems with the whole Restart after Upgrading Safari thing. Sigh
{Can I crosspost yet?}
I should either upgrade the mini (it can't upgrade to Lion and I'm not sure all the software upgrades are as backwards compatible as they ought to be) or rely on it less, probably, but I am emotionally attached to my home network set up. Sigh. It's going to be one of this cases where a big change is psychologically easier than a small one, I have a feeling.
Anyway, the point is, not yet back on track productivity-wise. At all. But I don't care, so there's that.
Off to the annual Meyer's outlet sale , not that I need more kitchen stuff, but it's fun to look.
Edited on 12/3 to add: that was an exercise in buying stuff I don't need. Okay, the 3 qt casserole and Rachel Ray bakeware will be useful, but rechargeable milk frother? I mean, I will use the hell out of it, probably, but I had a not rechargeable weak-ass milk brother. Stove top espresso? Really didn't need. I have so many coffee making devices it is ridiculous. And yet, making espresso on the stove top right now and it is nice to have that option.
But the silliest purchase is, of course, the laser probe combo thermometer. I can't explain it except (a) it was on sale and (b) it's a LASER that is somehow a THERMOMETER. I HAD TO HAVE IT.
And now I know that today my garage is 5 degrees cooler than my kitchen. The inside of the freezer is below zero. A cast iron frying pan on the induction burner set to hold a temperature of 275F pretty much does.
The mini, btw, still having problems with the whole Restart after Upgrading Safari thing. Sigh
{Can I crosspost yet?}