There's paint under my thumbnail

[andrewducker]

Spent the weekend doing the very last of the painting. Which has taken _forever_, partially because we've been exhausted, partially because we've been covering over multiple colours of paint, which needed multiple coats, and using two different colours, so we've had to let things dry at the edges before moving onto the adjoining parts. Oh, and move the TV from one wall to another, which required that wall to be painted first, and prevented the wall it had been on from being painted until it could be moved.

Anyway. Done. Joiner coming tomorrow evening to give us a quote for sorting that and telling us what we can do with the fireplace in the middle of one wall.

Tonight we're delivering the XBox to Si, and being fed in return. Tomorrow is daisyflip's birthday drinks. Wednesday is Brian's birthday drinks. Thursday I'm briefly seeing star_tourmaline and then stealing her Macbook to put a proper operating system on it. Friday we actually have to ourselves, and then Saturday Julie gets time off from me while I go play board games with old university friend "Big Neil" (so named for being built like a stereotypical viking/biker) and others. Not sure who those others are, having left it in his hands. On Sunday Julie and I actually get a whole day to ourselves, and next week I'm currently avoiding booking stuff into (except for regular gaming on Tuesday, and a board gaming evening on Thursday). Mostly, I just want to go for a long lie down...

Comments

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

Hey! OS X is a proper operating system!

[andrewducker]

Of _course_ it is.

(Ok, yes, I was trolling. But I couldn't resist. I'm just going to be installing Windows 7 under Boot Camp so that she can dual boot when needed for some software. My understanding is that OS X is actually very nice. It just wouldn't run half the things I want it to.)

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

Gah, and you're not even freetard-fanboying, you're putting *windows* on it!!!!

[andrewducker]

Of course I am. She has work to do. Which means actual software used by real people. No choice but Windows.

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

I'm curious what people need other than Office these days. Or a good text editor in my case -- and the best ones are on OS X.

[andrewducker]

No idea. I mean, at work we have huge numbers of programs that are custom written, and are Windows only, but that's because we've made them all. What her needs are, I don't know, but I assume it's some academic stuff that's necessary for her PhD.

For home stuff, there's some stuff like Games - Mass Effect wasn't on the Mac, for instance. But lots of popular stuff is making its way over nowadays.

[andrewducker]

Found out what it was:
http://www.qsrinternational.com/products_nvivo.aspx

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

Wow. I read that page and *none* of it makes any sense. And yet sentences like 'NVivo helps you link findings back to the original data that supports it' scare the crap out of me.

[call-waiting.livejournal.com]

Of course I am. She has work to do. Which means actual software used by real people. No choice but Windows.

Fair enough, but I'm skeptical as to the idea that that constitutes a "proper operating system" ;)

Admittedly I'm prepared to believe that Windows 7 is far, far closer to a proper OS than the Windows (XP) I have to deal with on a day to day basis... oh, how much I hate it. :(

[andrewducker]

You know I was trolling, right?

[call-waiting.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but I'm not going to pass up such a prime opportunity to bitch about how much I hate XP ;)

[andrewducker]

You can't resist bitching about XP. I can't resist winding up Mac owners. Everyone's a winner :->