The Men Who Have Entered My Life

I realize it’s been almost two weeks since I last wrote, but a couple things have kept me pretty busy.

For starters, the MacBook Pro (yeah, I splurged for the Pro) arrived and we have been spending some quality time together getting to know each other.

It was a bumpy road getting him though. UPS failed to deliver him overnight like I had paid for and all of their tracking information claimed would happen. But somehow they were able to deliver the AppleCare overnight, which was nothing more than a huge cock tease that left me with laptop blueballs for 24 more hours.

But finally, he arrived, and I’ve spent the past several days getting to know the ins and outs of him and of the entire Macintosh way of life. I figured it would be pretty easy to learn since everyone has always said that Macs are so intuitive, but I found that some of the easiest tasks ended up being that hardest to figure out and adapt to. I think this is, in part, due to the fact that after spending my entire computing life on PC’s, my intuition has adapted to a new way of working, so while Macs may very well be very intuitive machines, my intuition had been stunted and changed due to many years of a non-intuitive machine.

For example, perhaps the easiest thing to do on any computer (insert a disc into the disc drive), caused me way too much confusion that it should have. I spent probably five minutes trying to find the actual disc drive and the button to open it before breaking down and asking someone. Yeah, I’m a moron at times.

But now that Leo (that’s what I ended up naming him) and I had gotten to know each other and spent some quality time together, it was time for another man to enter my life.

Kevin came home from Asia last week. He ended up leaving his job over there and was able to come home five months early. I don’t really know what that means in terms of us, but it’s really great having him back. We spent Valentine’s Day together, which was the first time I’ve actually had a real valentine for Valentine’s Day.

So, those are the two men who have been keeping me busy the past ten days and kept me distracted from writing a blog. The other day I decided to combine them both into one project. I took all of the pictures from the time I went down to Florida to spend a weekend with Kevin and plugged them into iMovie and used Leo to make a slideshow set to music with the pictures. It turned out pretty considering I had never touched iMovie before or attempted to make a slideshow either. I’m pretty proud of it, and he seemed to like it, so that’s all that matters.

There are still a couple things with Leo that have me thoroughly confused, and the biggest confusion comes from iPhoto. For the past four years I have had a very specific way of organizing my photographs in folders and subfolders and sub-subfolders and so on and so forth to the point where some end up being five or six folders deep before you actually get to the pictures. And unless I am just having another “Where’s the disc drive?!” moment, it doesn’t look like that is the way iPhoto works. So, either I have to opt out of using iPhoto much (which would be a shame, because it looks like a pretty great application), or completely abandon the organizational system I’ve spent the past four years using and come up with another system that is not only iPhoto compatible but also Me compatible.

What I would love is to find my own personal Apple Genius who I could keep in a little cage in my house and have as a personal tutor whenever I needed help with things like this. Even better if this Apple Genius was an attractive young man who resembled an Abercrombie & Fitch model, complete with lack of clothing.

Then this blog would be about the three men in my life. And we all know that things need to happen in three’s.