A Day of Apple and Ugh
Jun. 30th, 2014 09:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kybearfuzzLast night before I went to bed, I was going to burn a CD of my files for the last comic book issue. I put the hard copy in the file with the printed copy. However, the blank CD wouldn't go into the Mac Mini drive. I pushed it into the slot and it wouldn't accept it. So after much internet searching, I found that the CD drive likely had died. Ugh.
So I took the Mac Mini to the Apple Store after work and had a "genius" check it out. As I was in line to check in, some gum-chewing @$$hole in a shirt/tie carrying his iMac cut in front of me to check in. He was giving off this aura of self-importance, smacking that gum impatiently like he had "places to be." I immediately took a dislike to him. Meh.
Ironically, I ended up sitting next to him at the Genius Bar. He got served before me. Apparently, his hard drive crashed and was unfixable. "Ha," I thought, "Karma is a bitch."
Unfortunately, my optical drive was dead. The guy said I could pay $150 and be without my computer for a week so they could fix it. Or, I could buy an external drive for a 1/3 of that and just leave. So, based on the guy's (and![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
aceofspace's) recommendation, I bought a new one online which should be here later this week.
So, I worked out and settled in for the night only to hear my next door neighbor mowing the yard. I couldn't understand it because when I got home Saturday, It was obvious that he had mowed while I was gone. He's essentially trimming off the half-inch of growth from Friday. I mowed Sunday and our yards were essentially even. Whatever. With gas prices as they are, I'd not have wasted the gas for it.
So I took the Mac Mini to the Apple Store after work and had a "genius" check it out. As I was in line to check in, some gum-chewing @$$hole in a shirt/tie carrying his iMac cut in front of me to check in. He was giving off this aura of self-importance, smacking that gum impatiently like he had "places to be." I immediately took a dislike to him. Meh.
Ironically, I ended up sitting next to him at the Genius Bar. He got served before me. Apparently, his hard drive crashed and was unfixable. "Ha," I thought, "Karma is a bitch."
Unfortunately, my optical drive was dead. The guy said I could pay $150 and be without my computer for a week so they could fix it. Or, I could buy an external drive for a 1/3 of that and just leave. So, based on the guy's (and
aceofspace's) recommendation, I bought a new one online which should be here later this week.So, I worked out and settled in for the night only to hear my next door neighbor mowing the yard. I couldn't understand it because when I got home Saturday, It was obvious that he had mowed while I was gone. He's essentially trimming off the half-inch of growth from Friday. I mowed Sunday and our yards were essentially even. Whatever. With gas prices as they are, I'd not have wasted the gas for it.