This and that

Today they came to my office and took away my ancient 17-inch MacBook Pro (I think it was running OS-negative-7) and replaced it with a shiny new 15-incher. OS 10.7.3, which is about as close to the bleeding edge as the DJ would ever get. Remarkably, everything works. It used to be that when you got a new machine, you spent weeks getting it to do half of what you used to do. Nowadays, things just work. I do not long for the olden days.

One nice thing is that for the first time I’m connected to the Cloud—and my iCal and Address Book—in the office. That’s the sort of thing IT used to block, out of fear that you might be able to look up somebody’s email, I guess. Once upon a time we didn’t even get iTunes. As my IT guy put it then, anything with an “i” in front of it, forget about it.

Speaking of music, I decided to go with the Amazon cloud service, which is the one I was getting for free. It works fine, I already have it, and it’s 25 bucks a year. What have I got to lose? It is nice listening to all my music in the office. Pavarotti is warbling away at the moment. I also now have a lot of Cloud storage, I think 50 gigs, in addition to the music. I don’t know about that. I don’t have a lot of stuff, if you know what I mean, aside from pictures. Well, maybe pictures it is. Might as well use it, you know?

Tomorrow night is the alum meeting with a side of JV. Coincidentally, the Speecho-Americans are gathering down the road for whatever it is they gather for. I guess Wednesday was just an irresistible night for such things. Somebody remind me to buy a loaf of Wonder bread for you-know-who.