When Things Aren't As They Seem

What have we here? Two iMacs? With very Windows XP appearing screens. There are also more wires in this photo than I'd like. These babies operate wirelessly just fine, but when making backups to their time machine it's faster going over a wire. I really like the wireless keyboard and mouse except that there's no number pad. For that you need a wired one. (Oh, I could have tried my USB wireless number pad I suppose but it isn't all pretty and aluminum and all.) I didn't catch it in this picture but there's a camera wire peeking around from the back of the right one. Last time I bought a digital camera I made fun of people who would buy one with a wireless feature. (Now they also have SD cards with wireless built in, I think. Seriously.) Now I'm thinking...hmmm.

I found something the Apple OS doesn't support, by the way. (Besides a bunch of software I'm just used to and could probably 'replace' with substitutes.) It's a gadget called Times Reader which brings a facsimile of The New York Times to your computer. They only have it for XP and Vista. Unfortunately, it requires .Net 3.0 Framework for XP. This software seems to have made my VMware image of XP slow to restart (after a little hiccup installing where I had to give it a boot to the head). As usual, 'a version for Macintosh users is planned.' How very quaint, spelling out Macintosh.

I love the poster in this picture, by the way. It's a reproduction, but it's a great one and beautifully framed, I think. I think it works with our color scheme for the condo. Maybe I'll keep it until we prove we can't hang it there.

Color Me Weary

The picture shows us recently reflected in a dress shop window that reflects our future home. (And also the new AMLI building.) We might have been taking our mini-vacation. Anyway, I edited the picture during our mini-vacation. We are planning another mini-vacation soon. But right now I'm embroiled in um, computers, end of month financial stuff, end of quarter stuff, and downsizing, downsizing, sorting, yada. I guess I partied too hard over the weekend or something. Or I'm having allergies. I thought I was going to have to go play tennis this morning and I felt awful last night with weird stuff. I'm going to try to ignore it until it goes away. Or go take some Advil and decongestants. Meanwhile, I want to say that working on the Mac tempts me to try to go all Mac. I've just discovered QuickBooks is available for the Mac. Hmm...well, not to get ahead of myself, I'll just get Windows working on the Mac machine....

I'm in a weird disjointed mood. Part of it is that I've moved my computing upstairs and this dislocation is making things seem weird. Imagine when I move out of the house. In the condo it will be all new, though, and not just moving to a different part of the house to do something I'm used to doing elsewhere.

I'm such a wimp. I'm also off on my exercise program. Too much tennis and distracted by other things. This, too, shall pass. Just do the chores, one at a time. I've taken care of some of the EOM stuff. I'm going to shower and take my dad to a doctor's appointment. I'm going to work on planning condo built-ins this evening.