well ain't that just special...

[sarahmichelef]

Went to the Apple Store and met with a very nice Genius. Apparently, the whine I have is inherent in the machine and there's nothing that can be done about it. So, y'know, the part where they made it seem like they had a fix for it? Big lie. Thanks, guys. I have such a love/hate relationships with Apple. Love the product, hate the comany. I wish they hadn't stopped licensing clones.

While I was at the mall, I stopped in at StrideRite to look at their rain boots. They start at a size 5. TRex wears a size 4. This seems to be a trend - no rain boots below a size 5. Or for less than twenty bucks. Ditto for real (read: insulated) winter boots. *headdesk* (Also - who in their right mind spends over a hundred bucks for a pair of kids' shoes?)

Then I stopped at Tim Horton's for an iced cappucino (butter caramel - yum) and some idiot was BACKING OUT OF THE DRIVE-THRU LANE. WTF? And he made it pretty clear that my options were to a) back out as well to let him out or b) let him back into me. Moron. So out I backed, and he peeled out of there without even acknowledging me. Jerk.

Went to RiteAid to get my 60 cans of Pepsi products for ten bucks, called nenie to answer a question he had asked me on IM earlier in the day, and now I'm home again, going to grab the files that I've changed off of X2 and hopefully get SOME work done today.

Oh well. At least there's a new version of Jardinains2 for me to play.

Comments

[mzkero.livejournal.com]

Try lands end overstocks. I've had good luck with them in general... I don't know if they'll have exactly the footwear you're looking for, but it's a good place to start. And I had the exact opposite problem. I went to stride rite looking for a shoe that he could still crawl in and they don't make them that big. J is apparently a 6wide, and they don't make them in anything over a 4 or 5.

Obviously this was before pennsic, since he has taught himself to walk at pennsic. As he spent the majority of his time walking other people around and around and around.

I think that your child and mine are destined to have the same experiences for the EXACT OPPOSITE reasons.

[alphasarah.livejournal.com]

I think that your child and mine are destined to have the same experiences for the EXACT OPPOSITE reasons.

You just might be right. TRex's feet and hands have always been disproportionately small - when she met peregrinning and a_c_fiorucci's N, their hands were the same size - despite TRex being three months older than him (adjusted - six months older than him actual). She's actually a fairly normal-sized 2-year-old now, but she still wears infant-size shoes.

Also, your child is a behemouth. ;^)

(And neither one of us is as bad off as another preemie friend of ours who at 15 months or so was still in a size ONE shoe.)

[a-c-fiorucci.livejournal.com]

I bought N sneakers in July (his cute sandals were getting too small) and he needed a 5W. (His sandals were 3W.)

Just for comparison.

[alphasarah.livejournal.com]

Exactly. I'm pretty sure TRex is a decent amount taller & heavier than he is (she's 25 lbs and probably 33" tall), yet her feet are immensely tinier.

[tashadandelion.livejournal.com]

This might sound like a long-shot, but I have a friend who is a Mac Genius here in the Philly area, and he'll be back from training in a week or so, and wants more excuses to get his hands on the guts of the machines, so maybe if Apple doesn't come through officially, I'll ask if he'd be willing to take a look off the record, so to speak. Interested? It would mean shipping it down here, I guess, but maybe he could fix it... I don't know.