Sunday, December 7, 2008
Slept in. Breakfast at home with Patrick: for me: 1 waffle, 2 eggs scrambled, 1 slice of toast, 2 hash browns, black seedless grapes (not seedless). For Patrick: 2 eggs over medium, 2 toast, 4 bacon, 1 hash brown. Shower. Patrick and I went to Stonestown, shopped some for clothes and shoes but bought nothing. Picked up the iMac at the Apple Store. Home. Began restoring the iMac from our Time Machine backup. House chores: candle maintenance, kitchen cleaning, paper map organization. Nap. Learned that Time Machine hasn't been backing up my data since September 1, so I lost 9 weeks of data. I don't have a complete online backup ever since the disappointing problem with Mozy, and I had not yet decided upon a new online backup solution except to try idrive's free 2 GB trial. So I'll need to salvage what I can from email attachments, Flickr, and iDrive. The process will likely take several weeks. Began installing Apple, Microsoft, Perian, and other updates. The Perian update window opened identically many (12+?) times. I don't know why it did that. It was very annoying. Dinner at Gaspare's with Mike, Mike 2, psychobauble, Nate, Jen, Quyen, Dave, Phil, Danny, Drew, Patrick, Paul, (Mark?).