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Hurrah for As the Apple Turns! A reader of theirs came upon the Saga of Griff and realized that an iMac that she was about to retire -- still in good working order, just, alas, too aged for its current position -- happened to fit my modest requirements for Griff's replacement (being a 333 littermate of his), and offered it to me in a private adoption arrangement. So, after five full weeks of Macless hell on earth, I at last have a proper symbiont in the house. (Although I haven't as yet got round to teaching it my net-connect info so I'm posting this one last item from the old IIci. :) )
The question now arises as to what to do with the remaining funds that were donated towards Griff's medical care. I will, once again, be contacting the donor list to ascertain their wishes; what I would like to do, if I can figure out how to arrange it, is to use the fund as seed money for some sort of emergency Mac repairs grant program, to help out others who find themselves in the similar Macless-and-cashless position that I've been in... I'll be looking into this, I know there are emergency grant programs for such things as 'artists whose studios burn down' and the like so it can be done.
So I am once more in full working order, and as soon as I've moved in to the new iMac (who is Grape, and has therefore inevitably been dubbed 'The iMac Formerly Known As') I can get back to work editing the novel. (I'd probably have been done by now if not for this unexpected brain-eating hiatus...) The flash-drive backups of my current-project manuscripts have already been backed-up onto the new mac's HD (thankfully all present and accounted for, except, oddly, for the last three pages of the last file I grabbed off Griff's HD in the final panic -- I did find two of the pages on a floppy backup in a close to current version, and I can only hope that the last one is intact on Griff's HD when I install it into the USB case... not that I can't reconstruct that scene, but I'm rather curious as to what happened to the file and I hope it doesn't bode ill for the HD) so, once the surgery has been committed, I can plunge back into the red-pencilling fray. Huzzah!
And in other news, pursuant to Tuesday's posting about having called city rodent control that morning, on my way out to the adoption meeting this morning I noticed that the rat-abatement posters in our alley are now dated '9/17/03'. This is why Chicago isn't known for its rats like NYC is/was... Kudos to the Young Daley for recognizing the importance of swift action and then following through.
I still have the cold, so I am going to go fall down now; next post shall probably be about the HD surgery, but I'm not sure when I'll feel well enough to perform it. So much to do, so little energy...
The question now arises as to what to do with the remaining funds that were donated towards Griff's medical care. I will, once again, be contacting the donor list to ascertain their wishes; what I would like to do, if I can figure out how to arrange it, is to use the fund as seed money for some sort of emergency Mac repairs grant program, to help out others who find themselves in the similar Macless-and-cashless position that I've been in... I'll be looking into this, I know there are emergency grant programs for such things as 'artists whose studios burn down' and the like so it can be done.
So I am once more in full working order, and as soon as I've moved in to the new iMac (who is Grape, and has therefore inevitably been dubbed 'The iMac Formerly Known As') I can get back to work editing the novel. (I'd probably have been done by now if not for this unexpected brain-eating hiatus...) The flash-drive backups of my current-project manuscripts have already been backed-up onto the new mac's HD (thankfully all present and accounted for, except, oddly, for the last three pages of the last file I grabbed off Griff's HD in the final panic -- I did find two of the pages on a floppy backup in a close to current version, and I can only hope that the last one is intact on Griff's HD when I install it into the USB case... not that I can't reconstruct that scene, but I'm rather curious as to what happened to the file and I hope it doesn't bode ill for the HD) so, once the surgery has been committed, I can plunge back into the red-pencilling fray. Huzzah!
And in other news, pursuant to Tuesday's posting about having called city rodent control that morning, on my way out to the adoption meeting this morning I noticed that the rat-abatement posters in our alley are now dated '9/17/03'. This is why Chicago isn't known for its rats like NYC is/was... Kudos to the Young Daley for recognizing the importance of swift action and then following through.
I still have the cold, so I am going to go fall down now; next post shall probably be about the HD surgery, but I'm not sure when I'll feel well enough to perform it. So much to do, so little energy...
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