New Freedonia

While I don’t think I was being hard on the guy yesterday, I do think he gave me a fair glimpse of what I can expect from him in the future. Thankfully, the owner is setting more realistic goals than I am at this phase. I was a bit concerned all told.

No, I don’t think the previous woman doing the gig was all that amazing. She had speed and a good degree of accuracy, but there were a host of other issues that made her less than desirable to maintain a long term work relationship with.

And yes, there seems to be a “lighter” attitude in the shop since she’s left.

So I’m back to the warehouse today. Hopefully I can get a lot of stuff cleaned up and caught up by this afternoon.

So it turned out that the HD was bad. Probably a factory defect. I feel a little better knowing that I didn’t do something to kill it, but there was well over a month of work on it that’s now gone.

On the bright side, Apple was good enough to give me a new PowerBook to go home with. They agreed that a HD problem like that less than a month after I got the thing was probably a defective unit and not something more sinistar.

So, now I’m at home with the replacement 12″ PB. Gonna be a “fun” evening of reloading a bunch of software and tweaking stuff out…again.

I know I must have done something to it, but when a Mac looses it’s boot volume, it’s not a pretty thing.

I know I’m probably going to have to go through this a few more times during the life of this project, but it still sucks.

I tried it for a bit, kept my early morning 5am drafts for about a week to see if anything worthwhile came of it.

Um…no. I think I’m better off sticking to when I’m actually awake.

It’s been just a few weeks now and there are already a lot of things I like about OS X. They small annoyances have mostly passed (I still want a two-button mouse) but for the most part I am pretty happy with this thing.

Still, I really would not have gone this route had it not been work-provided.