I posted a montage of gus-the-kitten photos at photographica.
Ron's birthday card read: We wish you a merry kitten, We wish you a merry kitten, We wish you a merry kitten and a happy birthday. And many more (birthdays and kittens!)
Yesterday's interview with the Saskatchewan radio station went very well. John Gormley is a fruitcake FAN as were most of the people who called in. Feel the power of fruitcake!
I think I'm only in need of some small gifts and my shopping is done. I hope to get a chunk of wrapping done tonight. First things first though - feed the cats, take a shower, don comfy clothes and find something to DRINK. darn. I should have picked up some egg nog.
I've been strolling down memory lane as it were at the Apple Museum site. I always enjoy the think different ad (here's the text, over at the Apple site) Here's a page from the first Mac ad. Sort of says it all - even today. Above left - the first mac Ron and I owned, a 512kE. He got a deal through the college he worked for at the time, but I remember thinking then it was still a LOT of money. Note, please, the processor speed was a whopping 8 mHz! This is my current laptop, a "pismo" G3 400 mHz powerbook. It has been tweaked so it has a 20 G hard drive and 640 of RAM. In between those two points we used one of these a PowerMac 6100. That's the machine (with a new processor) that my parents currently use.
Oh wait, and here's that iPod - 5 Gigs. Now, how much bigger is that HD than the one in the 512KE? Good thing macs come with calculator software, eh? hee hee - trick question - the 512KE had no hard drive..... On the next machine, the Mac Plus there was an optional HD -- all of 40 MB Now for total grins - check out the cheery adolescent in this shot. Class dismissed.
Grocery shopping is not so bad normally, but with iPod, it was pretty interesting. Tried not to boogie in the aisles! Ran into a quilt guild friend and showed her the iPod, talked about her well troubles (she had a cart of jugs o'water) and about retail hours.
Now to unpack and store it all. And then - hmmmmmm - baked chicken for dinner and time to make the cookies!
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I've added a link above to the Society for the Protection and Preservation of Fruitcake homepage.
Let's face it. It's all about fruitcake these couple-few weeks.
I have to go now and get my act together - grocery shopping, gift wrapping, sewing, finishing the grant quilts. ack. WAY too much to do and WAY not enough energy, let alone hours to do it in. We will prevail one way or another though. Oh yes, and make the cookies!
