Big Apple Day

It's a big update day for Macintosh users. The new Tiger 10.4.2 update (do Software Update or download it) came out, a new version of FireFox, a new version of StuffIt (get the free expander to uncompress zip, sit and other compressed and encoded files) and it's free music Tuesday so go get your free iTunes songs (if you don't see the banner scroll down to the lower right corner).

Shipping packages

So I ordered some books from Amazon (for my Egypt trip). I think I ordered them on July 3rd and they finally shipped yesterday. The estimated delivery date is August 8th (that's crazy, right?) so I checked the tracking and while the tracking is still listing August 8th I see they left a town 20 miles away at 9:15 AM so I'm assuming they'll be here today. It's just a pretty lousy estimation, they were off by 25 days!!! These days I expect something a little more accurate like: it'll arrive at 2:17 PM today...

UPDATE: They showed up at 11:04 AM on Thursday the 14th! They look like good books!

Where are those rocks that I'm talking about...

So this is where I was when I did the rock tour (see recent posts). It's also where I was when I went rollerblading part of the time and where I just liked to relax. You can see in the zoomed in part (you did click on the thumbnail image?) that fuzzy edge near the water along Lake Michigan, it's all these huge rocks (or big chunks of cement) along the shoreline. It's probably about 40-60 feet of these along the shoreline to the water (if not more) and many are painted with these some of these sayings on them.

The right half of the map is Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois the left half is Evanston. They're north of Chicago maybe 30-40 minutes from the downtown train station via the Metra (sixty if you take the L and have to switch trains). The L is probably just at the left side of the map and downtown Evanston is probably just south of this map. I really like the area I've had different friends live there (or near) at various times and it's just always been comfortable to me.

Here's a sketch of the campus so you can see it from a different perspective.

Another Flat Tire

So I went to leave the house and I had another flat tire, not a crisis I just wished I had noticed it earlier. It had a nail (maybe it was a screw) in it. I'm thinking that was a new tire from a few weeks ago (I had a flat on a different tire, but they rotated so I think this is a the new one). I didn't wimp out and call the Auto Club but isn't that what I pay them for? So much for the productive day I had planned. So now I'm getting fast food and waiting for the tire to be replaced....

This just ties into the kind of day I had so far:

And they just scrubbed the Shuttle Launch. Very disappointing day so far...

UPDATE: Shuttle rescheduled for Saturday.

UPDATE 2: Tire was covered under the road hazard warranty (I love Belle Tire). Plus they fixed a rim leak in another that was running low. Was still a hassle and wasted a bit of time but at least it was free. :)

Comments are fixed!!!

I didn't even know they were broken. Although I was a little disappointed on the lack of comments recently I just thought it was slow (or I've been extra boring).

Tonight, I realized it's been 3 days with out any comments (and I've posted more than usual). So I started poking around. I was changing something on the layout 3 days ago and while it seemed fine when I was done, I guess I broke something. And it broke it for all the posts so you couldn't even post on the older posts.

So if you've commented on something recently, it's been lost. Sorry. PLEASE feel free to post (or repost) any any post again...

Comments are like caffine, they get a blogger energized. And while I've been posting a bit lately, I've been missing the buzz...