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David Sobotta says Yes and No.

I've been having this problem where iPhoto won't print.  It spools to my printer (Epson Stylus CS5400), shows up on the "Completed" list, but never actually, you know, prints.  S'very frustrating.  I thought I was going to be really really smart and download the latest drivers for the printer, but that didn't fix the problem.

Ideas?

Bravo has apparently seriously underestimated the traffic that their site is going to get... It's taken me nearly all day to read Tim's Take on last night, and the site died when I tried to use "Rate the Runway" to look at pics of the dresses in writing my recap.

LeSigh. Dare I attempt to watch Kayne's exit interview?

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.

Eloisa is home. Battery is fully charged. Data are intact. As is the annoying whiny buzzy noise that was the whole reason I sent it in for repair in the first place.

Yes, I'm on hold with Apple. And I am NOT HAPPY. And continuing to hold is not making me any happier.

DHL delivered the box for Eloisa today. Time to start figuring out where I'm going to back everything up. This frightens me more than I can say. What if I miss something? My pictures directory alone is 5 gigs. I'm just going to have to boot up X2 in target disk mode and praypraypray that she doesn't decide to do the non-booty thing afterwards, though I'm pretty sure that problem was an artifact of the stupid Mac data transfer program, since I've used TDM several time since with no drama.

Ugh.

BumpTop prototype "aims to enrich the desktop metaphor with expressive, lightweight techniques found in the real world."

I'm not sure what it's a sign OF, but my UMass mailbox blew quota this morning. I'm notoriously bad about deleting things and I only get 30 mb and my students this semester are e-mailing me a lot of stuff... It's not as bad as when I was getting 500-page book manuscripts as attachments, but there were a lot of powerpoint files sitting in my inbox.

It's better now, though. Offloaded all course-related e-mails to my hard drive, deleted a TON of stuff, downloaded pictures of peregrinning and a_c_fiorucci's kid and the ones that sprirtwolf sent me after passover and the ones of my friend Kara's wedding and the ones of my friends V&B's kids... You get the idea. The stuff, it adds up.

(Which reminds me that one of my projects for tomorrow needs to be backing up the new computer.)

Went to the gym for the first time in nearly a month today. That was lovely. Came home, found that the copy of Happiest Toddler on the Block we ordered had arrived. Soon I will speak neanderthal.

And so on... Our potential playdate for Saturday fell through, but we have the MoD walk on Sunday to look forward to, and the weather's supposed to not suck (60 and partly cloudy is the latest I've heard).

Thank goodness tomorrow's Friday.

OK, here's the short version of the saga.

So after the whole iSight debacle I started transferring files from X^2 to the new computer. First I moved them by hand but then decided to back out of that method and use Apple's Migration Assistant utility.

Bad-freaking-idea. Long story short, it hosed a whole lot of apps and ultimately necessitated a clean reinstall of the OS.

Yes, you heard me right. I have ALREADY had to wipe my HD and reinstall. Joy. I had to wing it in class today (using a .pdf of notes pages of my slides) because Office was one of the hosed apps. My students who were supposed to be presenting today had their presentation pushed back to Tuesday.

But now things seem to be in good shape with the MacBook. I can't say the same for X^2. Last I checked, she was hosed in such a way that she'll only boot in target disk mode. And while I was planning to use her as 40 gigs of extra storage (and possibly a print/file server), I didn't intend for her to be unable to boot independently.

All of the other ways that the last 27 hours of my life have sucked forthcoming in other posts. The good news: the high tomorrow is 71, and we might get thunderstorms.

Well, after a conversation with Josh the friendly Apple tech support boy, I have reset my machine (remove all power sources; hold down power button for 5 seconds, reboot) and the iSight appears to be working. I have a case number in case it happens again. But it seems to be OK, so I'll proceed with the fun & excitement of installing more stuff.

Does anybody know where I put my Word install CDs?