Inspiration comes from weird places. We keep receiving mail addressed to the apartment’s previous tenant, Valerie. It’s been a soap opera watching the letters pour in over the last six months, disgruntled debt collectors increasing the bombard of threats each week. We even found a letter personally wedged into our door, which is discomforting considering no one is supposed to be allowed into the buildings without a key. However, as odd as it sounds, the stream of bad news has actually spurred me to strive even harder and devote more time to entrepreneurial ideas. It’s sort of like watching Jerry Springer and being thankful your life isn’t that messed up.
Unfortunately, our own frustrating message came in the form of e-mail today via our landlord. Apparently the downstairs neighbors have complained that we were being loud yesterday from 9-11:30pm. Aside from being instantly annoyed, I found it hilarious that for once in my life, someone has accused me of being loud. The elderly couple with three cats claimed that they either heard “someone working out, or running in place.” I wish I could solve this mystery of the apartment jogger but I’ve been way too busy working on my computer, exactly what I was doing between 9-11:30pm last night. Kathy went to bed early so unless our cat was sending morse code through the floorboards, I think it’s time to keep house shopping. As nice as our current apartment and location is, shared living will always suck.
In tech related news, I’m currently reinstalling Windows on my PC in order to clean everything out and start fresh. Sadly, I’ve been more nervous about fiddling with XP than I was upgrading Tiger to Leopard. I appreciate both platforms for different reasons and will probably never switch back to using just one primarily, but I applaud Apple for making things so damn easy. Pop in the disc, hit Go, and the rest is taken care of. I’m also loving the new addition of Spaces, Time Machine, and other improvements. Features I could care less about are the universal folder view (Coverflow is cool, but I don’t want all my folders to view this way!), Stacks were a good idea poorly implemented and hardly useable, and I actually don’t mind the new shiny dock but jeeze, my 20/20 vision can hardly spot the tiny blue application indicators. TUAW has the solution for bringing back the triangles, along with tweaking the dock’s color.
Nice new look!
I haven’t tried out Leopard yet. I would like to upgrade but I wasn’t sure it would be really worth it. .. I also read about it crashing some computers and that wasn’t too appealing to me.
I think my favorite Leopard feature was the inclusion of the Windows BSOD icon for PC’s on the network.
Comment by Travis — November 7, 2007 @ 10:29 am
Thanks. Credits go to the Cutline theme, created by Chris Pearson. I modified the header images but that’s it.
Leopard was well worth the upgrade. It all depends on which new features might benefit your own work but for me, additions like spaces are amazing. I separate all of my apps into their spaces when doing web work so Photoshop and other panel-intensive programs don’t gobble up screen real estate.
I’ve had no issues with crashing so far and like I said, the upgrade was a breeze compared to installing Windows again.
Comment by Adrian — November 7, 2007 @ 7:34 pm
I can feel for your neighbors. You have a habit of being loud between those hours.
Comment by Jordan — May 6, 2008 @ 7:01 pm