Today was a great day. Mackenzie and I woke early so that we could go for a dive with some friends. The water was warm, the fish abundant, and I was able to get one step closer to completing my DiveMaster certification.
When we got home I cooked Thanksgiving dinner for Nicole, Mackenzie, and Ashley. Turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, yams, gravy, the works. We had a nice time, sitting at our formal dinning room, eating dinner and enjoying each others company.
Nicole had to go to work tonight however. She only has 7 more days until she goes out on maternity leave. We have about 6 more weeks until Cameron Ashton will join us
Ashley just finished up with Gymnastics for this season, where she placed 8th for her age group at state. We are very proud of her. She will be moving up to the next level of gymnastics, Level 5. She is AMAZING to watch.
Mackenzie will be finishing up her fall softball season in the next couple of weeks. Most of her teammates will be playing for their high schools next year and Mackenzie plans to take that time to "have a life!" I say good for her.
As for me, well I am still working - not hard of course! Finishing up my Divemaster, and getting ready to become a volunteer diver at the Aquirium of the Pacific - I'll let you know how that goes!
I am almost done doing my annual putting up of Christmas Lights in the neighborhood. If I can get some pictures, I will upload them after we are all done.
Thursday, November 23, 2006
Thursday, November 09, 2006
The New Laptop
My new laptop came last Friday. I purchased a MacBook Pro, 2.33Ghz, 3 Gig of RAM, and 160 gig hard-drive - argh, argh, argh, argh! Once I opened it up, moved the files from my old Mac and old PC, I installed Parallels. Parallels allows you to install other operating systems, like Windows, and run them in a Window.
The goal of the new laptop was to consolidate my two laptops - a Dell and a MacBook Pro. It looks as though my plan will work beautifully. Among the many cool features of the MacBook is that it comes with a built in camera with some awesome software. Here is a picture I took in comic bok format.
One of the reasons I love the Macintosh is that it just works. The wireless networks display in your list of networks with ease, software installs and uninstalls with ease, it is simply easy.
One other decision I made was not to install Microsoft Office for the Mac. One of the reasons was that Office for the Mac is not optimized to run on the Intel Duo processor, or the Universal code. The other reason is that the open source software that is available now is fantastic. I am running Neo office, which is a Aqua version of OpenOffice and does not require the use of X11. I am also running Thunderbird and Sunbird to replace Outlook. So far, so good.
The goal of the new laptop was to consolidate my two laptops - a Dell and a MacBook Pro. It looks as though my plan will work beautifully. Among the many cool features of the MacBook is that it comes with a built in camera with some awesome software. Here is a picture I took in comic bok format.
One of the reasons I love the Macintosh is that it just works. The wireless networks display in your list of networks with ease, software installs and uninstalls with ease, it is simply easy.
One other decision I made was not to install Microsoft Office for the Mac. One of the reasons was that Office for the Mac is not optimized to run on the Intel Duo processor, or the Universal code. The other reason is that the open source software that is available now is fantastic. I am running Neo office, which is a Aqua version of OpenOffice and does not require the use of X11. I am also running Thunderbird and Sunbird to replace Outlook. So far, so good.
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