Feb 4-5 Week-Ender Report

Friday Night Report
Strange, as I write this, Friday night is a complete blank for me. I can't, for the life of me remember what we did. I know I slept at Cinthia but beyond that *pouf!* My memories of this evening are blank. Hummmmm...

Saturday Report
After I woke up I went for o'bit'o'shopping in Hull/Gatineau. Picked up the film Storyteller for 10 bones at a pawn shop. THey were having a Tintin sale at Librairie du soleil so I took advantage of it and bought Tintin au pays des savants; a nice coffee table book.

Since we are done watching Smallville Season 3, I was on the lookout for Season 4. Trird store I hit was Loisir des usagers and bingo, it was there, only problem is the box was all messed up. Boooo! I shall be patient. For some single DVDs, I sometimes don't care if the box is all messed up but these new carboard ones, I prefer having them in good shape as they can't be reproduces easily.

We ended up going to Dinner at MJ. We ate and played a little New Tetris on her Playstation. When I say New, I mean an old 1997 titled called New Tetris. It's a twist on the classic masterpiece where some of the blocks in the Tetris shapes are different colours and when they fall down, they sometimes break apart and melt into the lower blocks creating cascading rows. I sucked at it and didn't like the new rules. The whole point of Tetris is that you are given a puzzle and have to make be with what you are given. This one didn't follow these rules at all as the shapes broke apart. Makes you wonder: why mess with a classic.

Sunday Report
Spent some time with the iMac and designed a CD cover for my late grand-father's CD. My father was able to tranfer some old folklore recordings of him on his computer and we are making a CD out of the recordings. It's pretty cool. Can't wait to listen to it.

We took a walk to Blockbuster to get rid of a few DVDs and found out that they don't give a $5 minimum anymore when they buy DVDs. Boo! They must have found out that some of the disks people traded in were bought at Hellmart for $2.88 sometimes! I trated a few anyways and ended up buying season 1 of the old 1950s show Adventures of Superman. I wastched 2 eps in the evening and found them quite enjoyable. It's really cool to see in the first show how they introduce the tale of the Origin of Superman (Kripton scenes and all).

iMac update
I was able to network the imac and the PC together via my wi-fi router. It works really well. I can access everything on the drives on the PC now. Only snag I have to figure out now is that I have to re-map those shared drives everytime I turn off the computer. They don't stay on the desktop. Strange.

I played a bit with Powerpoint for the man and with the basic 512Mb of Mem in the iMac, I found out that it's a little slow. I will try to install the open source office clone and see how that program performs tonight. I will most likely want to upgrade to 1.5GB of mem soon anyways as I want to encore DVDs with the machine.

iMac is still my friend. It's really strange how I notice Mac mentions everywhere now that I am a member of the Mac family. It's everywhere (podcasts, news, tv, etc.). There IS an alternative to Windows based machines!

In other Mac news, Steve Jobbs became the primary share-holder of Disney this past week in the Pixar deal. File this one in the
"Things that make you go Hummmm...." file.

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So far, the new office is cool: 4 walls, my own door, own light switch and everything. Sweet!! :)