Traumatised for the last two weeks. It's called Mac-shock. My gorgeous little G4powerbook in its nifty aluminium frame has taken a fall. It's in intensive care undergoing a full body transplant.
At church two Sundays ago, I had it set up the front to show a powerpoint presentation. Had it all cabled up to the projector. The band was in the background practising. 'Soldier of Truth' was warbling away, Tink was hitting the keyboard's and friend of Tink and Soldier, Kaz was backing vocals. "A clean cool sound that is", I thought to myself as I walked across the stage area, carefully avoiding the possum poo offerings that add that little extra something to our Sunday services.
Suddenly some hairy fool dragged his great elephant foot across the mess of cables across the stage and pulled the Mac off its lectern and hit the hard ground with an almighty crash. It was on. It was open. It was running at the time. i was that fool! *Sobs uncontrollably*
I ran across to her, and lo and behold SHE WAS STILL WORKING perfectly! Except there was a great gashed, dent buckling the frame at the front, hard drive corner. You could see the blood and guts ( or their equivalent.)
So in it went for a quote and an OK from the insurance dudes... And like a human physician, IT TAKES FOREVER to schedule elective surgery! So I sit here scrounging keyboards when I can, and realising just how over reliant I am on technology.
tomorrow, i'm off with variouis dudes from church and 'Andrew' to hear a bloke called Brian McLaren talk about how we can do church better in the 21st C. He's ggot cred. I'll let you know how it goes!
