The Ultimate Couch Potato Tool

As the Matt-Rachel-Sam holiday visit continues, I am being totally spoiled and have turned into a couch potato. Not only has Matt fixed my favorite mug, making me very happy, he has now added Screen Sharing to my Macbook so that I can access my desktop computer from anywhere in my apartment using the little guy. This has made me so lazy that I now lay on the couch and use my little computer to manipulate my big computer which is 10 feet away.

Matt and Rachel have bought me a giant bottle of Gin so that I can mix my favorite Gin and Tonic drinks. Now if I can just get the fridge a few feet closer, or teach the big computer to mix the drinks, I would be set for life with endless entertainment. Would you say my siblings are enablers?

Surprising Myself

I'm sitting here figuring out my income and expenses for my accountant and it turns out I made a decent living this year as a consultant. I suppose this isn't something you want to advertise to the world but the good news is that I actually have a sustainable lifestyle.

Wouldn't it be good if I followed my own consulting advice and kept my expenses tracked in QuickBooks in real-time? Now that I have a university faculty ID I can purchase it at academic pricing. My old QuickBooks for PC doesn't work on my new fabby Mac. Sounds like a student dog-ate-my-homework kind of excuse.

Now to put more money away for savings and taxes.

New Desktop

Images of my new workspace. A bit messy but for some reason I can work amongst this chaos. Note the nerdy calculator and kissing mice.

Happy

In the past 24 hours I feel like a weight has been lifted and life got a whole lot easier. Reasons why:

1. Filed for Divorce - big step
2. Retired my laptop - so slow and frustrating
3. Bought a Mac - fast and wonderful, I feel younger
4. Amazing arts clients - new clients every week
5. Sun - crisp, clear and sunny spring

Ahhh, I'm breathing so much easier.

Obama a Mac and Clinton a PC?

The New York Times had a clever article today comparing Barack Obama's website to a Mac computer and Hillary Clinton's to a PC. I could totally relate. Despite my rant in 2006 that Macintosh Computer Encourage Confusion I do feel that Obama is more user-friendly - an easier graphic user interface. While Clinton has that no-nonsense, no-creativity, non-transparent PC feel to her.

Check out their websites for yourself.

http://www.barackobama.com/
http://www.hillaryclinton.com/

Illustration from the New York Times.