MehBook

My laptop died this morning and I am still in mourning. (Do you like what I did there? I do enjoy a bit of homophony of an evening!) Anyway, it's all very sad. A memorial service will be held in due course. Family flowers only. Donations to the 'Sinead still needs to eat, despite having to buy a new laptop' fund.

The 'silver lining' in this scenario is that I am now the rather bemused owner of a brand spanking new MacBook Pro, or as I'm finding so far, a MehBook. I'm sure that once I get used to its little foibles, get some software installed (that's proving to be unreasonably tricky, grrr!), figure out how to type euro-symbols and put fadas on my e, and generally get to grips with it I will become a convert to the mainstream cult of the Apple. Until then, I still say 'Meh!'

Cold Turkey 2010

With a tagline like "Wobble before you Gobble", how could I resist?  So, I signed up to do a 6k run from the State Capitol Building at 9am on Thanksgiving morning, which is also the day before I leave Salt Lake City to head home for Diardie's birthday and Christmas.  Can't wait.

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I am running in aid of the Huntsman Cancer Foundation and hope to raise the modest sum of $100.  I'm a long way off that yet.

For all their talk that "Philanthropy is an American thing; they just don't have the same tradition in Europe", they're a tough group to crack for raising a few bucks out of their own pockets. It's only 'philanthropy', apparently, if someone else (mega-rich) is paying (for everything)! Yet another small cultural difference, I suppose?