(whoa, is it just me or did they totally change up the blogger interface?? hmm conveniently timed for SXSW I wonder? :) Eric, spill it!) Update – Eric has just given me the answer loud & clear. (hey! that’s my my first RTFM!)

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Hi!! I’m blogging from my powerbook! Today I am loving it & it hasn’t been funky once – phew!!! I had a super mac wizard with magical techie powers come over and help me with a bunch of stuff – and I’m soo excited about it all!!! Thanks Tack!!

First we went & bought me a new wireless access point router. This was after much debate and discussion with a few tech head friends (just get wireless access point & hub or use a wireless access point router, etc). I almost went the first route – but Tack assured me getting the later was the best bet and I agree (especially cuz he knew how to set it up! woohoo!! that’s 1/2 the battle!)

So we get back here and I fire up my ‘macalicious’ and it’s smooth as butta. First thing Tack realizes is that I need to upgrade my OS X – awesome, he does a whole bunch of great updates for me – maybe that’ll fix the funkiness? I hope so!!

Then he gets to work and installs my wireless and gets that all up & running… networks my two computers together so I can get my files off my PC – and whole bunch of other super fun stuff. WAHOO!!! He was such a help – I’m soo excited!! Plus, the faster I can get all my PC files transferred over, the faster I’ll be able to ween myself off of it, which means the faster I’ll learn all these shortcuts better & better! Which already, I’m much faster at, btw. And I’m getting better at typing on this smaller keyboard – and I am just loving it! Definitely the excitement of the newness and the portability is just totally stoking me. Oh – and I even had a USB Optical mouse layin around that popped right in & works great – woohoo!!

So life is good today.

Tack also got to enjoy one of my tasty homemade sandwiches, complete with yummy chips and a crisp, cold pickle! AND a cold beer!! (have I mentioned how truly psyched I am to eat cheese and drink beer again? there is a god!!) and we sat outside on my deck and sweltered in this luxurious March heat! wowie it was hot today!!!

Then later on we even had some yummy Girl Scout Cookies for dessert – Samoas (oh my gawd, I could LIVE on these!!!!) and of course, Thin Mints – of which I thought I was going to have to restrain Tack from tackling me, grabbing the entire box and running out the door. Needless to say, he was psyched. :) mmmm…. coooookieeeess.

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After a very successful day of enjoying watching Tack’s Geek Power at work, I dropped him off & headed out to pick up my friend Darren for a trip to Amoeba. I have had this box of old CD’s I’ve been wanting to sell for almost a year now – and so *finally* today I went & sold them. $25 for all of em! Woohoo!! I heart Amoeba. Darren picked up a few classics: Black Flag & some old LL Cool J – but I actually opted out of the laborous clickety clacking of searching through millions of CDs (I’ve gotten quite a bit of new stuff lately I have to absorb, so I could hardly think of anything I was in need of… plus Amoeba can suck you in for hours – which is great and all, but I knew I didn’t want to do it today), so we took off shortly after my successful sell and his oldies but goodies purchase.

After enjoying some Tasty Tacos in the Haight, we headed over to Jem’s. I had left my new Stegosaurus Spaghetti Spoon they gave me at her house… and she hooked me up with a few CDs and a VENUS mag she thought I’d like. yay for jem! She was being crafty, too, so it was fun to break in on her craft extravaganza and chat it up.

I like hangin w/ Darren too… he’s cool. Man I’ve got some killer friends right now… life is good.

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To finish off my day I swung by Rachel’s place & dropped off her books I’ve been borrowing forever, but finally went ahead & bought my own copies because I don’t want to live w/o them. They’re two books every woman should have: “Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom” and actually the second one – I’ve said it once, and I’ll say it again – EVERYONE should own: Getting it On. The first one is like a manual for being a woman. Every question you have about whats going on… it’s great. The second one, same thing – for everyone, men, woman, gay, straight – it just lays it all down in such a healthy wonderful manner. It’s totally down to earth and fun to read. It’s great – I recommend it!

Ok – so that’s all for today. I have to clean up a few things & maybe begin the process of transferring over some of my PC files onto this puppy.

Hope you all had a nice weekend!!