System Up!

After some "safe-mode" troubleshooting, I got my laptop working again.

I'd just spoke to guest services and returned the Internet cable for my room when the system came back.

When I begged for the cable back I told them Mom fixed the computer while I'd been talking to them.

If Mom could have fixed it she would have. She was more distressed than I about our blog being disrupted as this would have necessitated writing many postcards.

Anyway, we have some pics to post.

Meltdown

We've not updated recently as my computer melted down somewhere between Britian and Ireland.

I'll post a few anecdotes to keep you all in the loop, but pics are probably not forthcoming.

You can find an Apple system software disc laying on the street in San Francisco, but nowhere in Dublin, apparently....

Another Wrinkle and Wrinkle Removed!

A few websearches demonstrated that my AC adapter issue was in fact a battery issue.

I resolved it but went to SFO for my Boston flight with the laptop half-charged.

At the airport, I took my computer to a automated charging station and topped the power up. It was very space age. Unattended remote controlled, taking credit cards and securing charging ports with red light isometric thumb-print readings.

When I went to retrieve my Pismo, the thumbprint reader wouldn’t work! Neither would the courtesy phone beside the station!

I had ten minutes before my final boarding call to rescue the device from three tech support people and while I was waiting my phone ran out of minutes. Ultimately, Pismo and I were reunited just in time for takeoff.

Another Wrinkle

The AC adapter on my laptop just busted. :(

It's 11pm the night before we travel. I've got about two hours of power left on my Pismo now. Not that I'm going to be making any mid-air posts....

At least I found out in time to websearch directions to the Apple Store in London.