First, if you’re going to use OSX Snow Leopard here’s a compatibility chart you’ll find useful. Make sure your critical applications are updated and make sure you know what won’t work. Be especially careful with disk utilities that may cause more harm than good when used with an operating system they aren’t tested with. Also, both before and after installation be sure you repair permissions to avoid random oddities. So far things are going okay except the buttons on my HP printer (scan, etc) don’t work and I have to control everything from the software. Screen savers do not work from any previous OS version because they were all 32 bit and they are now required to be 64 bit. (Seti@Home works but there’s no screen saver for now.)
Despite many reports that the Beatles are coming to iTunes tomorrow, it looks very unlikely from everything I’ve read. Crushed once again. However, I’m still excited about my eventual delivery of Rock Band and the new Box set. Reports when they arrive in a week or so. Almost done book three of the Brent Weeks book I mentioned before and will post a review when done.
The Tolkien Estate and New Line Cinema have settled their lawsuit and production of the Hobbit movie with Peter Jackson producing but not directing may now commence. Then again with the luck they’ve had this will change a few more times too. And if you can’t believe it, someone’s more of a subway nut than I am. Here’s someone who wants to run a bunch of old tube stations as tourist attractions. I’d go, for sure but I can’t imagine any scenario in which that would even be a break-even operation.
The Panthers are mailing season tickets out in the next few weeks and the first (and only) pre-season game is later this month. Congratulations to the University of Miami for whomping the dreaded Florida State Seminoles. The only time you’d ever catch me rooting for the Seminoles is if they were playing Notre Dame (which is my least favourite college sports team of all time.)
I am miffed at Delta. Bureaucracy is a bad thing. I flew CO some time ago and for some reason my miles didn’t post to my DL account right away. I sent in my boarding pass (and stupidly didn’t keep a copy) for proof. They claim they didn’t get it. It’s not that I care about the tiny-ass amount of miles, but am trying to keep my miles from expiring at the end of the year. I keep getting bounced back and forth. I told them to give me credit for one stinking mile just to extend my expiration date. No dice. With all the miles I have at stake, this isn’t a minor detail. And, for fun, I have from 1993 a Northwest statement with 4000 miles on it. They didn’t expire back then. I’m going to send that to Delta (they bought NWA) and ask for those miles. I’ll do that next month because I don’t want to confuse them. It’s a long shot for sure, but what the hell. I am sweating profusely for no good reason. I know you care. My whiplash has been acting up badly these past two days, but until my heart test I am not recommended to go to therapy for that.
Which reminds me, I remain very anxious about my incipient heart doctor’s visit on the 11th. I probably won’t have results right away but I’m nervous. I promise a public update as soon as I have results and bit of other health news. I’ve been quiet lately, but things really aren’t all that much changed — don’t take silence as good or bad news: it’s just silence. In one last bit of stress, we switched insurance companies on the first of the month. We still have no cards for the new company. So I’ve been paying out of pocket for my prescriptions. And I’ll have to do the same at the cardiologist. If I was healthier there would be hell to pay but I don’t have the physical strength or mental energy to do it. And I had to buy a new forklift at work spending money we don’t have.