marlyse.comme, myself and my life
Friday, May 12, 2006
This has been a very busy week.
And now I’m feeling quite pumped out and ready to sleep for a day or two… if my cats would allow me to. The big things I did were:
Installed the basic gallery for my art work at mStudiosREALM - needs clean up, some nicer CSS (I think I’ll stick for now with the white even though a medium gray would be more appropriate, but I just do not like that) and all larger images need watermarks and then the REAL big job of cataloging all artwork (sketches, drawings, paintings) which haven’t been digitized yet begins in earnest. But the first corner stone has been set.
Finished work on my 3 paintings, the Tarot trio “9 of Pentacles : Take 1, 2 and 3″ - photos to come when I’m getting the stuff back from JCCC. I’m definitely ready to move on.
Wrote the semester paper on the French Symbolism painter Odilon Redon and turned it in within the given time period :-)
Had my powerbook freak out on me over the past 2 days with several kernel panic’s and even so after wiping out the machine and re-installing from scratch. Went to the Apple Store today, stood over an hour in line and Mike from the Genius Bar suspects that they’ll need to replace the motherboard - he said so after ensuring RAM was good etc. and when he heard I still had the same problem after re-installing on a fresh system, it was pretty much a done deal. At the same time I could show him the problem I have with the Trackpad (over months it became randomly non-responsive) and usually it’s really hard to show a problem when bringing the machine in, but this time all behaved and the first thing that happened after booting up was that the mouse was not responsive :-) and thus gladly I did not have to persuade him about this. This means probably that I’ll get a complete new top for the powerbook. I might get it back in 3-5 days, he didn’t think they need to send it in and can repair it right there in the shop. Thank good for Apple Care because I’d be just about a month out of warranty.
On the way home I passed by the grocery store and got everything needed for a ton of fresh ice cream which I’m making for Sunday (Mother’s Day AND Jim’s birthday party), this will be standard vanilla and chocolate ice cream but also strawberry ice cream made with fresh fruit… yummy.
Coming home and missing my admin station [ = powerbook ] I’m having a real hard time to locate myself and what I need to be doing and so on. At first I thought I can get away with just not using the machine for a few days, but I can tell by my immobility of the past 3 hours that I’ll need to install the basic organization software and databases on my desktop to continue functioning.
Overall I think though that I’m done for the week and will take it easy this evening. Stumbled over a great looking recipe for a 3-cheese souffle and I think that is exactly what I am going to go and cook now.
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