Still can't sleep, OSX updates, Phoebe's a featured kitty!

Got almost everything upgraded to OSX compatible now. The whole system still feels funny but I'm finding little things each day that make me go "Doh!" which is actually a good thing. I love having the little "light bulb moments", as long as I can remember what I did to get there, then it just pisses me off.

I've got to say, OSX is so far much more stable than System 9, of course it took me years to corrupt my old files, it used to be fairly stable at first too.

Got an email from Apple today advertising their new Power Mac G5, the bastards... I got a dual CPU G4 when they were brand new, with a stunning memory capacity of like 1.5 GB, and now they have a damn Mac that can use up to 8 gig of memory, and is like 10 times as fast as mine. If I won the damn lottery I wouldn't even want to try and keep up with all the upgrades, you'd spend all your time doing nothing but reinstalling and updating things, jeez. My best friend spent a fortune on a brand new G3 setup like a year before they came out with the G4's and she can't even get her new printer to work correctly with her "outdated" (maybe 4 year old?) setup.

Speaking of, my printer is still freaking out with OSX. I did manage to upgrade from ClarisWorks to AppleWorks and found, to my delight, that it's pretty much identical and not just another form of MS Word (which I have and don't like). I know it sounds lazy, but I really like the Apple Word processor better. I don't want hyperlinks and crap popping up at me while I'm typing, I don't even want it to spell check me till I ask it... I also don't like the new version of SimpleText... what's it called (pull up the menu bar, go to applications...) oh yes, TextEdit. It brings things by default up in HTML format, which kinds of defeats the purpose of trying to edit HTML and break down code. I was trying to reformat a template on my finicky auction listing program last night and even manually opening it in TextEdit it wouldn't save it in normal text, it kept wanting to save it in RTF (rich text format), which won't work with my program (which is OSX compatible, ironically). So I've put my old SimpleText icon on the wavery little dock, I think it's the only Classic app on there now...

Damn, my heart is racing still and I have to take two more steroids at bedtime, which is like now... I've been doing pretty good till today, I was itching all over most of the day but no hives yet (knock on wood).

Got the kitty a new toy, she's completely shed her little pink safety nail caps on one paw and I didn't want my husband to get scratched so I got her a catnip Kitty Hoots toy with a really long tail so he can play with her. She did get her picture featured on the SoftPaws page, she's on page one right now of the photo gallery (Phoebe) chasing a blue string . And no complaints about the nail caps, they're awesome, she's just such a gentle cat and she keeps getting them caught on things, she has very small nails but the next size down was kitten size. And having the nail caps on for awhile dissuaded my husband from having her declawed, which neither me or the cat could have done. But I can tell she's so relieved to have one paw naked now, the other one still has several caps on it. She's been doing somersaults on the sofa and latching onto all her toys with her newly rediscovered claws (which have been trimmed, BTW). She was a bottlefed baby and she's hyperintelligent as a Burmese so she knows not to scratch things she shouldn't.

It's awfully quiet in here, I'd better go find her and put the both of us to bed.

Posted by Morticia at July 18, 2003 03:43 AM | TrackBack