Feb 20 2002
Au Revoir
Well, John’s folks are on their way back home. I think they really did have a great time, and it was good to spend time with them. From time to time over the past 11 years that John and I have been married, I wondered if they minded that I took the baby of the family away to another country, and that I was so very lame about going to see them. But now I’m not worried. All they care about is that John and I are happy together. So now they can head back to their quiet haven on Kennebec Lake with lots of happy memories of their visit to San Francisco, and they can now imagine us in our apartment, going shopping on Polk Street, and things like that.
However…you knew there had to be a qualifier here…our Imac is gravely ill. Its outlook on life has been getting darker and darker by the day, reaching Sartre-like proportions yesterday, when its screen went black, apparently for good (or evil). John bravely carried it by its handle, wrapped up against the rain, to the guy who fixes our VCR’s and who is supposed to be able to cure our little grey Imac, too.
So I’m writing this on a beat-up old PC which John the pack rat refused to give away when we got the Imac, and it’s really horrible. Our site looks like crap on it (a five year old version of Netscape is what it has), and it’s noisy and I can’t hook up DSL to it, so it’s ultra-slow on top of everything else. Also it doesn’t have Outlook, so if you’ve e-mailed me in the last 48 hours, I haven’t seen your message and I won’t until next week sometime.
This whole thing has made me wonder why this great city does not seem to have anyone like Candi’s Brian, a Mac God who will make house calls to cure ailing Macs. It seems that SF Macs have to be brought in to the doctors, which is especially remarkable when you think that Apple is based here. Hmmm.
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