Bright and Shiny Takes It in the Teeth

I accept that Billy the iPod acting all wonky is the universe's way of telling me that bouncing it off the office floor every few days is bad for it. I get it.

My Powerbook deciding that it was now going to make an alarming popping-grinding-clicky sound every time I turn it on or plug it in (or play a movie), however, is purely unfair. I'm leaving for grad school in six weeks - I have no money and I need my computer. True, if it's going to die on me, now is better than later. Still...

Appointment at the local Apple Store this afternoon, where they will, I hope, look at it, listen to the noise and say "ah-ha, yes, that problem, we can fix that problem." And that that problem, whatever it is, is significantly less expensive than buying a whole new computer.

Wish me luck.

*crosses fingers*

Neptune's Court

I think I've just passed through some piratical rite-of-passage as the trailer for a film I've already watched via *a-chem* was just released today. Then again, it's a British film, which means there is weirdness in the release dates. Not alas, a particulary good film, even by my "I rewatch King Arthur every three or four months" standards.

Bright and Shiny Challenges

So the Apple Store tells me that Veronica Mac, my shiny Powerbook, either needs a new logic board, in which case I get to spend a lot of money but get a shiny new computer, or new speakers, which will cost $1,000 less. So, hurray for Apple Store.

True, the best option is replacing the speakers but my inner magpie is already coveting a shiny new MacBook, so there's part of me that wouldn't be unhappy if I had to get a new computer. But I would really prefer that they were able to fix my baby. *pets Powerbook* I have other things I need to save that $1,000 for.

Still, at least the harddrive is okay, and I can spend the next few days leisurely backing up my music and video files. Frankly, there was worse news I could get.