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Upgraded

I upgraded to Tiger last night and my computer is being quirky. Mail quit unexpectedly twice and Address Book quit once. I plan to repair permissions and run the maintenance on it and hope that helps.

Then I have to get to work. Importing my photos into iPhoto, organizing my fonts so they don’t get out of hand. I need to do a little organizing of my music and of course, download some widgets.

I really want to try out the Netflix one and I saw Minesweep and Tetris that I want to check out.

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Mac Icons

I wanted to change my HD icon on my desktop to something nicer than the default, so I found InterfaceLIFT. It has a bunch of cool icons for Mac and Windows.

The one I finally picked out is a little image of my eMac in an icon pack called iMac Generations and I thought it was perfect. What do you know…the creator’s last name is Albuquerque. That’s my maiden name.

Oh yeah…Tiger should be delivered today…Fedex Tracking shows it on the truck for delivery. Woohoo!

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Moll

A while back I was flipping channels and came across a pretty decent movie starring the british woman from ER. She was playing Moll Flanders. Since then, I’ve wanted to watch the whole movie.

Last night I did. It was a different version starring Robin Wright Penn and Morgan Freeman, but it was excellent. A great movie.

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Kitchen Photos

Here are the before and after photos. The before was taken before we moved in. Since, we have put down tile on the floor, painted the cabinets, put up wallpaper, replaced outlets and switches, replaced the stove and hood, replaced the faucet and installed track lighting.

We still plan to replace the countertops, paint all the trim in white and paint the ceiling.

BEFORE:

AFTER:

Oh, the hole you see in the cabinet is where we will be replacing the drawer that was missing. It used to be there, but apparently it broke while the previous owners lived there and they never bothered to replace it. They just glued the face of it to the cabinet. So my husband is supposed to be building me a new drawer to go in there. Hopefully he’ll get around to it soon.

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The Kitchen

We redoing our kitchen walls. We had originally planned to paint the walls, but decided that it would be a pain to peel the old wallpaper off (2 layers), so we bought some new wallpaper and are in the process of putting it up now.

I will post before and after pics as soon we we are done. I also have a work in progress from one of the walls.

The only thing left to do will be replacing the countertops. Then we plan to paint the ceiling, but that will be later because it flows into the dining room so we’ll have to do that room at the same time.

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Tiger Upgrade

I’m going to upgrade my computer to Tiger. I’m looking forward to the new features that come with it. I hope to try out Font Book for my simple font management. I like the new look of Mail and that I will now be able to do HTML mail. I like the dashboard feature and spotlight. It will probably make things easier to find.

I’ve been having some issue on this machine but a few of them were minor and I was able to fix them pretty easily. Now my only problem is that I can’t burn CDs. It fails before it can even start writing to the disk. Not sure what is going on. I plan to get a disk cleaner and a bundle of new disks to see if that helps.

We got our storage building setup in the backyard. We painted the floor and put up shelves and pegboards. Now we just have to fill it up. And I think by the time we are done it will definitely be full.

Last night we saw Million-dollar Baby. It was really good but I was hoping for a different ending, of course.

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