So, as I thought, pretty standard today. Got the shopping done, got more special food for Tamara, library books back, crunchy food for Squeaker, groceries, gas, and went to pick up my HD adapter I left with someone to finish transferring. 

 

This afternoon was three, timed to perfection as only I can. At 1:00 I set up a NAS for a guy. He thought it would be "easy". HA! What do you think this is, the future? *looks at iPod Touch* Um, it's not the future until I own a flying car and my own servant bot. That looks exactly like Sailor Mercury. So there. He had the iMac six inches from the (horrible) apple Time Capsule connected via wireless rather then a sensible ethernet cable. Gigabit ethernet FTW, let me tell you. Backed up a couple of GB of data in like, three minutes. That sucker's fast. Naturally the Time Capsule part wasn't working all that well, huge surprise. I left it on "preparing" which hopefully it got tired of eventually and started to actually back up. Worst Apple product ever. Hate it. Well, maybe the Pippen comes close, but I never got to use one of them.

 

The interesting thing was his remark about how silly it was we were still using "keyboards." Hate to break it to you guy, but keyboards are pretty much here to stay. Voice is great and all, but you can't think and talk at the same time, so something like this you're reading now would be impossible. That's the real reason why voice to text never took off. Not because of accuracy issues (thought that is a big part of it) but because anything but dictation is just too blasted hard. Your only other option is the computer reading the mind directly, and I have enough trouble keeping my focus on what I'm writing without girls kissing  the computer boobs picking up any mermaid stray thoughts as well. The reason it works so well in Star Trek seven of nine when someone asks the computer to do something is because that's scripted. Otherwise, not so much.

 

Next at 2:30 was a machine turning itself off. I opened it up and the heatsink was totally clogged. Thought maybe it was just that, overheating the machine, but after cleaning it, and turning it back on, it died within a minute. So I replaced the power supply and we'll see if that takes care of it. No calls yet.

 

Then over to set up the Mac laptop, transferred everything from her old PC laptop to it. Set up mail, etc. 

 

Then over to walk the dog, and then home. (I petted some kitties as well) Couple of calls today. Also finished ripping Bubblegum Crisis, reading the second Dresden book, making sure my plot was solid for the game, and making the Warder/Dreamer that'll be the focus of the next adventure.

 

I heard a commercial for one thing or another from a nearby TV while setting up said Mac and it started with "The average person will spend about XXX number of hours kissing."

 

My first thought was, well super, another thing I'm below average at.

My second thought was, no wonder we can't solve our problems, we're all too busy sucking face.

My thought on the way home was, look at all the stuff I get done those "average" people don't. I'm freaking awesome! (see the above list)

Later: Wait, average American or average "human"? Because I don't think the "average", say, Muslim spends as much time kissing as the average, I don't know, EVERYBODY ELSE. 

 

Two for tomorrow, a return call to the guy who gave me the old PC, he got an iPod he is apparently to dumb to plug in because he "needs it set up" and that's really about all you do. Then in the afternoon a regular (I hope) old cleanout.