The other day, while shopping, I got a craving for licorice allsorts, actually I’d been craving them for days, and decided to satisfy it right then. However, the only licorice allsorts I could find, came in a giant box, like the sort of box one might find under the Christmas tree. I briefly considered going to another store, hoping they would have something smaller because I don’t need a whole killogram of licorice allsorts. But going to another store was not in my plan, so I thought, what the hey, and I bought them.
I managed to eat quite a few on the drive home. Feeling somewhat sick I hid them in the bottom of the freezer, forgetting all about them until today. So HELP ME, because now I’m forced to blog about my licorice allsorts self made addiction, in a supreme effort to take my mind away from eating every last one of them right now!
There was a huge sale, up to 70 percent off, on the coveted skate ski equipment a few weeks ago. So of course I bought everything, boots, bindings, skate skis and poles, despite the fact I could barely walk at the time, long story. I'm walking fine now, but not running or doing yoga or skiing. There is acres of fresh, cold snow outside and I feel incredibly bummed out and impatient that my body is taking so long to heal and I can't try out my new equipment.
Instead, I’m lying around on the couch reading, and typing pitches to unknown editors.
One of the books I’m reading is Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs. None of what he says about Jobs is surprising because I’ve been a Mac fan since the early nineties. I subscribed to all the Mac magazines and eagerly looked forward to every edition of tidBITS. I picked up the Penguin edition of Stephen Levy’s book, Insanely Great, the life and times of Macintosh, the computer that changed everything, off the remainder table at Coles books for $1.98. Reading it, helped to exemplify and cement my feelings, that loving and using Macs, made me a member of some kind of underdog but exciting cult.
For the record, I’ve owned a Mac Plus, Powermac LC 580, Powerbook 1400, blueberry ibook clamshell, eMac, Two white Macbooks, original ipod shuffle, ipod touch 2nd generation, ipad2, and my newest Apple gadget, an iphone4.
