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[channonyarrow]

Send...help...cannot...breathe...

Which is what it feels like when I take my laptop in for servicing because 2008 had a final present for me. WITH LUCK (note that I have no luck) it will be back in three days to the tune of about $300.00, not including the fact that I for some reason bought an external HD that I can't afford. WITHOUT LUCK, it's gonna have to go to Apple, for five to seven (!) for $600.00 In the SCREWED WITH YOUR PANTS ON department, that five to seven remains the case, but the cost jumps to $1200.00.

So I am using the craptop at home to do Photoshop stuff, and my parents' even worse computer for internet stuff and wishing that I'd done something with intermediate top, like figure out if it has wireless. Yes. I have three computers, and I shit myself with glee when I found out that John Williams did the arrangement of That One Song That A Bunch Of Famous Dudes Played. I am a geek, let's all get over that together. Here's a tiny bridge.

Actually, if it comes down to SCREWED WITH YOUR PANTS ON, I may actually just buy a crap HP laptop for a quarter of the price and call it a day.

I am actually a little bit in love with my Genius Bar rep. And not even because he went (as far as I can tell) WELL above and beyond what he should have done to help me out (repeating a hundred times "Well, if I had a job, I'd say start the register rolling now," apparently works). I am not that shallow. No, this is because we both geeked out about a) my flash drive being a WotC giveaway; b) my former job at WotC (I think it was namechecking Jefferson that worked, since he knows Jefferson too, and dude, you cannot tell me "that guy with the Superman tattoo on his arm" because I have dreamt of that man naked through no fault of my own, I KNOW who he is) and, c) my email address. AWESOME. MADE OF WIN AND PUPPIES.

And of course I watched the inauguration. I wish that everyone would shut up about how Obama's African-American, because I have these strange flashbacks to Nazi Germany; given that he's mixed-race, this seems overly compartmentalise-y. You know, "You are more than one-eighth African-American? TO THE CAMPS WITH YOU, SIEG HEIL!" I mean, I have no idea what box the dude checks on census forms, but constantly hearing that he's African-American is like "Wow, we really have to work on this "race" thing here."

Which I already knew.

Also, I realise that a lot of my flist disagrees, but I felt that Warren's speech was, all in all, far better than I had expected, and even a very reasonable speech overall. I also liked the minor religion-checking of Judaism (you cannot tell me that Hero Israel quote was not chosen with that in mind) and Islam (The compassionate and merciful? I don't even care if that IS in the Christiam Bible, I know it from al-Fatiha) and felt that as far as avoiding separation of Church and State goes, it was a fine prayer. I assume this is because of Rahm Emanuel. DO NOT FUCK WITH RAHM. HE WILL SEND YOU HOME IN A BOX.

God, it's been less than 18 hours since I turned in my computer, I've slept for some of that and watched an inaguration for a lot of it, and I WANT TO DIE. SEND HELP.

*criez*

EDIT: NO, STUPID COMPUTER, THE CD-ROM IS NOT NEW HARDWARE. Also, why the fuckkity fuck are you finding the flash drive FOUR FUCKING TIMES??? JESUS GOD I HATE PCS.

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[graeae.livejournal.com]

What's a Genius Bar rep?

And that picture?! I AM IN LOVE.

What the fuck was he doing? Please tell me he was following Cheney.

[channonyarrow.livejournal.com]

Genius Bar is where you go when you got them Mac repair blues. Or if you want to learn how to do something, or, basically, need ANYTHING from Mac. There's one in all the stores, and the stores are staffed with three levels of shirt. Orange shirts are concierges and can direct you to where you need to go and sign you up for appointments; light blue shirts are sales and advice; dark blue shirts are techs. Brendan is a dark blue shirt; I called yesterday to make an appointment and he was who I got, and he really, really, REALLY went above-and-beyond. Like, I figured the best case was gonna be the three hundred, which was waiving the labour fees in any event, and he really, really made it fucking happen (also, now I have a 500 gig external HD that I should have bought in the first place so I can use Time Machine to back the computer up and keep it backed up; this is AWESOME). But basically, to get off the squee, I don't know if they're all Genius Bar reps - everyone except the orange shirts I've seen working the Bar, but I assume they are. Basically, it's your associate. Except they're all geeks.

I don't know what he was doing, but man, I am also totally in love. I kind of hope that he was making a face at Sasha (who was THE MOST ADORABLE THING ON FEET, DID YOU SEE HER DANCING DURING THE RECESSIONAL?) right before he pointed out that Cheney was in a wheelchair and he, Rahm, could be sure he stayed there if he didn't go back to Wyoming and STAY HOME FOREVER.

"You've spent the last eight years in an undisclosed location, Dick. Do you really think people are going to fucking notice if they don't fucking see you for another eight, Dick?"

Do not try to convince me that this is only a beautiful dream. I BELIEVE IT WITH MY SOUL.

[graeae.livejournal.com]

No, I didn't see Sasha dancing. *grins* But I heard one of them make some comment to Barack over the mic about making it good right before he took the oath.

*dies* God, we're totally gonna end up with a Rahm fic community.

OMG, we need to write Rahm vs. Chuck Norris fanfic!!!

[channonyarrow.livejournal.com]

We can't. We can't possibly. That much awesome couldn't even be contained by the universe. One of them would have to discorporate if they ever met.

You know - I was trying to find the recessional, but no luck - somewhere, Barack Obama is, right now, saying "I wish I'd said "I solemnly swear I am up to no good." HE HAD JOHN WILLIAMS ARRANGE THE FUCKING MUSIC THIS IS TOO GOOD TO BE REAL. OUR GEEK-IN-CHIEF. ♥

[graeae.livejournal.com]

It would be Chuck, of course. He voted Palpatine McCain.

And don't forget the Spiderman inaugural comic that I can't find anywhere in this goddamn city... and geeks everywhere finally have a leader.

[channonyarrow.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but I think that Chuck Norris gets a pass to be Republican. He's Chuck Norris. How many other Republicans are so awesome that they are an entire internet meme?

I hadn't heard about the comic.

Dude, you are totally not working on your thesis. Fucking call me, we'll squeal about our Geek In Chief at pitches only dogs can hear.

[graeae.livejournal.com]

Lemme call you at 9.

Of course, I'm not working on my damn thesis - we had this little thing called an inauguration. Maybe you heard of it?

[channonyarrow.livejournal.com]

Hi, I was not only up, dressed, and out the door by seven thirty, my PARENTS were. My mom got ONE HOUR of sleep. So she could see the inauguration.

We cried a lot, it was really fucking ridic. AND YET, AWESOME.

So are you just catching up on inauguration stuff then? I figured that you were just working on your thesis at every possible second because of work being bastardly.