So right after raving about my new MacBookMini that I installed myself, I SCREW UP THE PRE-INSTALLED ONE I GOT FOR SARA! What a dork. Hers came today, much shinier and less scratched than mine, with Bluetooth (mine is w/o) but with only a 16GB drive (mine is 32GB). She was loading it up and [...]

Safa and I woke up at 5:30AM ON A SATURDAY to go to her Girls on the Run 5K. It rained and Safa was up the night before until 10PM for a choir concert, which is to say she was pretty tired and didn’t make a personal best. But she did sprint it to the [...]

Mission accomplished: I successfully installed Mac OS X on a Dell Mini 9 today. In fact, this post is coming from it. It was pretty straightforward and easy; went off without a hitch. I now own a 9″ Mac netbook that is plenty powerful to do email, web surfing, blogging, light word processing, etc. It [...]

It’s finally here! The day that Goyablog was made for: Goya Day! 5/8 (Go/ya) is an unofficial holiday in Okinawa, but is an official holiday at Goyablog. I have the ceremonial goya in the fridge, ready to be champurued for lunch. Even have some ceremonial to be, uh, ceremonially sipped. For gentle Goyareaders who [...]

For some reason I got it into my head a few days ago that it would be a kind of cool project to buy a Dell Mini 9 on eBay and follow the now well-publicized hack to install OSX on it. So, I fished around eBay looking for the cheapest base model I could find [...]

It’s officially started: today — just minutes ago — Sara emailed to the Grievance Process Chair her intention to file a grievance against the Dean who rejected her tenure. I’d love to publicize this letter, which in summarizing the grounds for grievance is halfway to being the full grievance itself, but that would be imprudent. [...]

This is what I saw sawed in our backyard today when the guys from Arbor Art took down a sick 100+ year old hackberry tree. More details on the whole ordeal later….

Besides Life Getting Complicated as my sabbatical leave begins, there is also the little something called research and writing that I must do. Unlike a certain friend who will remain unnamed who is planning on spending sabbatical time taking tennis and Photoshop lessons (okay, just in afternoons after a mornings of work), need to decide [...]