Retail Therapy
It’s been a tough week. I don’t think it’s appropriate to go into detail here, but suffice it to say that some tough medical decisions were made and I hope Kim’s grandfather is on a path to recovery. I will have to write more about him later as he’s had quite a distinguished career. He’s a metallurgical engineer and has worked on projects ranging from aircraft design for Douglas to the [Apollo program](http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/history/apollo/apollo.htm) to [cold fusion](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_fusion).
As a reward to myself, I bought an [Apple MacBook](http://www.apple.com/macbook/). So far, so good. It’s great. The screen is vibrant and the reflective coating is more than tolerable. Since this is just a toy, I went for the white 1.83 GHz model with the base configuration. We are now officially a dual-OS household. 
Once I download [Bootcamp](http://www.apple.com/macosx/bootcamp/), we’ll be a dual-boot household, too!
It feels a little silly to take pleasure in such a material thing, but after thinking hard about the meaning of life it’s a welcome change.
May 26th, 2006 at 10:00 am
Does it moo?
http://ibloggedthis.com/2006/05/26/apple-macbook-moooing-sound-identified/
May 26th, 2006 at 12:59 pm
Sometimes it’s the silly material things that get us through figuring out the meaning of life. Glad to hear things are improving for Kim’s grandfather.
May 27th, 2006 at 11:14 pm
Dave: It does moo. The fan noise is so quiet that I didn’t even notice it until tonight in the quiet of the sleeping house. It’s something a firmware update could fix, I’m sure.
It’s not keeping me up at night.
Alissa: Thanks. However, “improving” is not the word I would choose. The difficult decision was selecting the best crappy choice if you know what I mean. At least we’re moving forward and there’s some hope.