Anybody remember this? I remember this!
It's been a while since I've dealt with it, though. I've been a Mac user since System 7 so OS9.2 isn't exactly unfamiliar territory, but I gotta say it's been a while. I switched to OSX years ago. Seeing as we run a Windows shop where I work you'd think I wouldn't run into any Mac tech support issues but today I actually ended up helping someone who was running OS9 and needed to set up DHCP on the Mac laptop she bought in 2002. OSX was already out in 2002. But anyway, I had to dig into the memory banks to help this young lady amidst plenty of other things going on simultaneously (lawyers calling for contract negotiations, office renovations and relocations). I was actually pretty tickled that I remembered how to set her up. The only thing was that once that was done, her IE was woefully out of date. I don't blame Microsoft for not supporting it for OS9 anymore. I set her up with iCab and it wasn't great but it worked better than IE. Oy.
So no sooner did I opine on social networking than I got a request from a friend to join yet another social networking site -- Facebook. Am I done now? Yeesh.
It occurs to me that there are now a gajillion ways in which people can get in touch with me. Let's see if I can list most of them. Phone, email, text message, IM, postal mail, in person, social networking sites... and many of these are in duplicate. I've got three phones -- two work, one personal. Text messaging on both cell phones. IM for both work and home. Fax at work. Postal mail for both work and home. The list goes on. It doesn't usually matter so much except for those comical moments when I have someone in my office, the phone is ringing, IM is flashing and an email just came in. Oh, and someone's knocking on the door. How does one process all this input anyway?
Even with the tech-enabled networking you can't replace good old fashioned connections made between people. Yesterday I discovered quite by accident that a consultant I'm working with grew up in the town next door to where I grew up. Just over the river. Who knew? That was a real surprise. We are going to have to go get lunch and make all the connections. It's a small town area out there in Western Mass and everybody knows everybody. And as I'm browsing through Facebook right now I see someone I went to high school with. Haven't thought about him for a million years. I see all the French names too (big secret nobody seems to know about: Massachusetts has a reputation for being Irish but there are tons of Francos where I grew up). Yep.
In other news, I'm still in indecent love with my iPhone. Oh, and calligraphy starts up again tomorrow. I have a big Tanabata assignment to turn in before the end of the month. Can't wait to get started. Speaking of Japanese art, last night I went to pick up my Ehon poster at the framing shop and on the way back, I did a little recon on two relatively new additions to the neighborhood. One was Gyro Mania, a Greek joint just off 30th Avenue. The people were unbelievably sweet and the sheftalia gyro I got was delish. The second was Esparks Coffee, where they had a cute sign up saying the following:
Socrates drank hemlock!
Romeo drank poison!
You drink coffee!
You're smart!
Word... I may be smart and still ticking but my decision to have a coffee last night probably had a lot to do with my getting to sleep after 2am... *Cough*
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