Saturday, March 11, 2006 |
Rain
Anyway.
The trip in was gorgeous, what with the snow levels so low, especially around Palm Springs. We didn't stop to record any of it; the itch to get in before midnight drove us onward, past the ridiculous Indian obelisk and the constantly churning windmills; no matter how pretty Mt. San Jacinto might be, we couldn't see to the top, as the low clouds obscured everything much above 3,000 feet or so.
So we learned that all the spring training games in the Cactus League -- save for the Mariners/Rockies and split-squad Rockies/White Sox contests -- were rained out. "One hundred forty-three days without rain, a sold-out Giants game; somebody is not living right," said A's manager Ken Macha, only recently declared a moron. Outside, I hear the trickle of rain beat against the side of the building, the temperature astonishingly fifteen degrees colder than in the Windy City -- 44°F, vs a balmy 59°F in Chitown. If anyone is living wrong, it must be Cubs fans, or maybe God is sneaking up on the White Sox. But here I begin to sound like Buster Olney and the believers-in-clutchness. I dislike the notion that meteorology -- and, hey, shouldn't that be the science of meteors? -- is tied to some ol' God who's liable to get mad at you for sacrificing a sheep the wrong way. Water's a four-letter word here; I imagine they do rain dances before or after precipitation arrives, and maybe both.
At last, I should say nice things about the folks at Days Inn, Mesa, who just recently got wireless Internet access available in all their rooms. Thanks to that -- and a brand new MacBook Pro I purchased just yesterday -- I'm live and blogging without having to worry about whether the Schlotzky's across the street is open. Thank Pope Gregory that Easter doesn't fall on one of my days here -- that happened before. I couldn't get access to the Internet, and was cranky as Elron Hubbard after an interview with the IRS for, oh, hours.
Anyway, let me know what you think, especially re: performance in the Native applications - I have a feeling that the Dual Core processor setup will be a big step up....
I left the Microsoft Windows environment permanently about three years ago when a virus attacked my Win2k machine without my even being involved -- a network worm of some kind clobbered the hard disk. Linux is cool and all but the multimedia environment requires a bit of work to maintain; the Mac just works, and out of the box, too.
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