On Slacking

I cannot believe that my last entry was on 2/9. Where on earth does the time go?

Vacation was quick and technologically unproductive. I explored and used some of the tools we've played with but I have avoided Adobe due to plain old fashioned fear. Our last class in which Faye "introduced" Dreamweaver may as well have been in Greek for all I took away. I know eventually I'll return and give it a shot (probably tonight) but right now it's a big cloud following me around. If Dreamweaver were all I had to deal with it would not be so intimidating. It's just that I feel like I'm jamming one more thing onto an already overflowing plate.

To add to my unproductivity there was a catastrophe on Monday of vacation week. I was happily on my way to Boston, enjoying the sea air on the Cross Sound Ferry when my beautiful, beloved MacBook literally hit the deck. It was in my bag at the time and the noise was chilling. I couldn't even bring my self to look at it (head-in-sand school of thought). When I reached Boston I finally took a peak and it wasn't good. My stomach lurched. The lower right corner (if you're looking at the keyboard) is badly crunched and the disk drive is unusable. My stomach still turns if I really think about it. When I got the courage to turn it on everything seemed in order (miraculously) but I was still worried. Finally went to the Apple Store in Boston and consulted one of the "geniuses". Seems I was lucky. Everything seems okay so far but I do need to get an external disk drive. And that crunched corner still depresses me. Could this be an excuse to update???

Don't even ask about my Marratech/Dr. Weston disaster! That's for another day.