Kieran’s & Ellie’s barbecue on Saturday just passed was a fun day for all. Although I shouldn’t be surprized with the company we were keeping (Rich, Colin, Rob D) a 24 pack of Fosters, amongst other beer and beverages, should last a damn sight longer than 8 hours!
Since this is only July (although with the weather here in Liverpool it might as well be February), hopefully there’ll be the chance of another of these seminal events before the summer is out? ;o)
A few weeks ago I followed a link from Jeremy‘s site to the Apple “Switch” campaign area on their site. As a PC user this was just out of curiosity, you understand – I am at least open to the idea that PC’s might not be the holy grail.
Anyhow, reading through the Mac propoganda I came to a grinding halt when I met the line “Mac’s don’t crash!”
Erm… since when?!
A year and a half working at a publishing company with a good number of them around taught me that they crash just as often as PC’s… maybe not in the same way, but they crash all right. I don’t mind being sold something – I’m a fairly easy guy to convince if I can see the benefits of something myself and I get the feeling the sales pitch is a reasonably honest one. So this is why I left the Apple site with a shrug – they should at least sell their system on its obvious benefits instead of slinging mud at PC’s.
I found this article today that underlined the train of thought that in addition to falling sales… Apple might have bigger problems on the horizon due to this very advertising campaign.
Aside from other clouds on the horizon, the last couple of days brought some cool news on the dwelling situation. A house we went to look at a week and a half ago is being refurbished, and we expressed a keen interest in taking out a lease at the end of the month.
Our future land lord has been busy as hell – obviously working on renovating the house – putting in heating, kitchen, shower, that kind of stuff. So it was great to finally get a hold of him and convince him that we really, really, really wanted the place. (Each time I spoke to him he’d say “So you really want the place?!”)
All things going well, he’ll visit us on Saturday morning with the papers to sign and the next chapter in our nomadic life style will begin.
Just as the above arrangements were being made, Fliss texted to tell me that she’d gotten this full time job she applied for. This is fantastic news – five long months she’s been looking for a full time gig and finally it’s worked out well.
Not only am I dead pleased for her, but it gives us a bit of a back up plan if events of today transpire for the worst! ;o)