Bye Bye PC

The Switch is pretty much complete. The Dell sits dejected and silent (finally!) in the corner of the room and the MacBook Pro reigns supreme hooked up to the many silvery and slick peripherals which have outclassed but been subservient to the Dell for years. Everything's in place for the final transition of photos, videos, documents and music... not just putting my first foot firmly in Macland but removing my second from PCland. Here we go. It's been surprisingly difficult to get to this point, what with juggling things around between internal and external storage, and between drive formats and applications and wotnot. I think I've abandoned Picasa at least temporarily while I give Aperture a shot, but even with that switch I wanted to make sure that the way back was still in place if I needed it. It's only in the migration become apparent how much I'm actually invested in Picasa. But anyway, here I am. I've installed Caffeine, SubEthaEdit and iSlayer iStat. Firefox, obviously, and Aperture 2. Keyboard shortcuts are still causing me trouble and I'd love to get faster at doing things. Finder looks like I accidentally installed the Large Print version for the visually impaired, and I'm still waiting for Office 2008 since---very tellingly, I believe---the Microsoft Store on Microsoft's Silicon Valley Campus is out of stock. Makes you wonder. By the way, Roomba turned up safe and sound. I think he was feeling a little threatened and neglected. You know how they are. TiVo was the same when we got Roomba.