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Show #300
Show Length: 31:25
File Size: 29 MB

As you can see in the photo my new computer is much larger then my older 20 in iMac. The new one is much larger, faster, and I must say quieter then the old one. It was time to get a new one. I know it seems like I get new ones all the time but the old one was actually 2 years old and was starting to slow down during certain tasks.

My new computer has shipped! Right now it's probably traveling across country in a truck or plane. It's scheduled for delivery on Friday by 10:30 AM. I won't be here to sign for it but the front desk will do it for me. Of course I'll be busy all weekend playing with it!

Five years later I don't feel any safer under the Bush administration than I did before 911. But at the same time I don't think about it everyday either. At some point you need to move on and work on changing things, like getting rid of Bush and all the assholes running the country.

On Tuesday Apple introduced new iMacs. Of course any new Apple introductions get me excited. I've been thinking about getting a new iMac for some time but have been waiting for just an update to occur. After seeing the changes in the iMac line, I decided to go ahead and order a new one. Now I'm really excited.

You might remember that I got my current iMac about two years ago. I will probably even get this one delivered about the same time. My current iMac is exactly 2 years old so it's time for a new one.

I decided to order the 24 inch iMac with the 2.33 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor. I also decided to upgrade the ram to 2 gig. And I decided to upgrade the hard drive to the 500 gig drive. And finally, I opted for the upgraded graphics card, the NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT with 256 mb SDRAM. Of course it comes with all the wireless items built in. And it comes with the 8x SuperDrive. This thing will really scream I think.

Of course when I bought the first one two years ago I thought I'd hold onto it for a long time. I have started to notice it slows down during certain tasks. I really can't justify the cost (it was expensive!) but I just think it's time to upgrade. The old one will hang around for awhile. I might have to let the boyfriend play with it to learn more about the Mac OS. We'll see about that.

I have no ship date yet for the new one. When I ordered it, it said it wouldn't ship for 5 to 7 days and then it would take another 5 days to get to me. I'll wait patiently for it's arrival.

It's been awhile since I've written about the books I've been reading. I finally finished "Possible Side Effects" by Augusten Burroughs last week and thought it was time for an update. I've read all his books and enjoy his style of writing. I really enjoyed "Running with Scissors" and "Dry." Both were amazing memoirs that were fun to follow. The movie version of Running With Scissors is coming out this fall and I can't wait to see it.

Burroughs last two books, "Magical Thinking" and "Possible Side Effects" are both collections of essays about his life at different points. While I do enjoy all the stories, I prefer his book length stories like "Running With Scissors" and "Dry." I hope that he will be coming out with a book length story in the near future.






The next book I've decided to read it "America's Boy" by Wade Rouse. I selected this book because I saw it mentioned on Towleroad awhile ago but I can't remember when it was. It was also a selection in my Gay Book of the Month club.

Here's what the publishers say:

The tacky environs of the Missouri Ozarks in the 1970s set in relief a budding gay sensibility in this funny, affecting, overripe memoir. Wearing his mother's bikini and pearls to a mock beauty pageant at age five, winning office in his high school's Future Homemakers club, feigning romantic interest in a string of female beards, Rouse was hopelessly out of step with the redneck masculinity urged on him by taunting classmates and despairing relatives. Fortunately, he had a charmingly offbeat family, led by two warmhearted grandmothers, who accepted him as he was (without asking too many questions) and left him with a trove of glowing memories. The plight of a queer soul fighting for life in rural America is familiar literary terrain, and Rouse renders it as a duel between flamboyant camp and white-trash kitsch. He amplifies his inner turmoil with a weepy confessional tone, obsessing about his compulsive overeating, body issues, hair issues and gross bathroom issues, and sobbing endlessly over emotional travails. In the end, the narrative lapses into a clichéd coming-out melodrama. But when Rouse looks away from the mirror to the people around him, the book comes alive with tender portraits of kitsch and kin.

Sounds like a book I'll enjoy. Of course I'll write something about it when I finish it.

I've made it to the end of my first week back to work after a busy summer. It's been a very busy week and I'm glad we have a three day weekend. I haven't had time to do much else besides school work and sleep. My house is a bit messy and I have laundry to do but I'm sure I'll get to those things sometime this weekend.

I met with a kitchen designer yesterday and began the first steps to renovating my kitchen in the coming months. She was very detailed and asked lots of questions. If her bid comes within my budget, I'll probably go with her. We connected really well and she seemed to know what I meant with all my choices.

Ernesto is going to make our Labor Day weekend really wet but it shouldn't ruin the whole weekend. Hopefully you'll enjoy your weekend wherever you are!