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Where the $&@ is Kevin?!

Tuesday, May 31st, 2011

Where the $@& is Kevin?!

I am here bemoaning my MacBook Pro. You see? It started back in November...
~~~~~~wavy lines~~~~~
*type, type, type*
FREEZE!
"What the?!"
Reboot!
Blue screen (yes, the mac gets them too)
"crap!"
Reboot
Blue screen with spinning beach ball of doom
"Double crap!"

My hard drive died. What's more, my hard drive died and I didn't have ANY backup. Yes, I'm a geek and I wasn't backing up my drive!

I bought my mac 9 months prior and didn't get AppleCare, so I bought my replacement drive at OWC. Having bought drives there before, I trust them. I spent the next 4 months building back up my data and recovering what I could.

April
spinning ball is back! It appears when I try to do ANYTHING. I try everything including virus software, disk utilities, wiping the drive and reinstalling. Whenever I try to recover anything from backup, the BALL and slowness! Finally the backup drive stops responding and IT dies. WTF?!

I give up and take it to the Apple store. They have it overnight and return it to me with an apology. They say the hard drive is failing but since it's not the original Apple drive, they can't replace it. Really?! You can't replace this drive because it's the replacement for the Apple hard drive that died 4 months prior? Sigh

I'm not bitter

BTW- I might be bitchy about their policy, but the staff was nice and (amazing as it was that this happened 3 days after I was there) [this] was not me.

Sent From My iPhone

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40 days Outside the Dessert

Wednesday, March 9th, 2011

Yes, I'm Catholic (converted- baptized Presbyterian). That means on the day before ash Wednesday of every year, I overeat and otherwise overindulge. This is because for the next 40 days I will deprive myself from over-excess to mirror Jesus's 40 days in the desert. It is a time to reflect on the past year, a time to focus on God, a time to lose 20 pounds (in the name of God, of course)!

This year, I will be spending every one of those 40 days consuming no more than 1,900 calories (which is a lot for a diet) and will be exercising (at least) 20 minutes.

Day one starts today (6:55am). I have completed my exercise- now I must go my first day [without]. I have done this before and I can do this again!

Another Lenten decision I've made is to be more active in my writing (this is a blog, after all). While I cannot promise every day, I can promise it'll be more (a lot more!) frequent than it has been in the last 5 months!

Say some prayers for me (even if you're atheist ;). I'm off into the desert, for my family, for my God, for me.

 

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Me and my Ego and Me

Monday, October 11th, 2010

I have a big ego.

There I said it. I've come to terms with this ever since I've become a full-time web developer a year and a half on Twitter and the full-length mirror I ordered last week. Social media is about the individual- in my case, it's about "me." I know this comes as a shock to all that follow me on Twitter (all 1,275 tweeps, I may mention), but I kind of crave the attention. So much so, I had to quit it (tweeting) at work- really #sad. I really had a problem- I tweeted an average of 23 tweets a day, 12,600 tweets over 1.5 years! #insane

We, who engage in social media, need to understand that it fills that school-age need to get attention of our peers. Yes, it's a great way to network, but do the people we work with really need to know when you're "hopping in the shower?" #ewwww

So Twitter is a lot less "a part of my life" than it was.

Forget FaceBook- could never stand the apps. I love the status updates, but then that's really just Twitter. So, I guess blogging is my last ego cultivator. The sad thing is (and I hate to break this to you) but I think there's only one person that reads this (you). I used to joke that my Mom was the only one that reads my blog, but I found that she even didn't know I had one! "...but Mommmmm... I told you about it at Christmas!" #hangsHeadInShame

I know it's shallow, but I maintain this blog to keep up my ego- It's a second childhood thing. It's sad, but it's a hell-of-a-lot cheaper than a brand-new Camaro!

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