iBook Arrives

Well, it finally arrived today. Parts have been arriving piecemeal over the last few days (although most have been sitting at the UPS warehouse). This morning about 9am the FedEx guy rang and minutes later I was opening up my brand new iBook. After playing around a bit, Megan and I did some errands around town (including a stop at the UPS warehouse to pickup up RAM, my case and a iPod firewire cable). After we got back I started the real work of setting up my iBook.
I ended up using Apple's Migration Assistant, and I'm glad I did. It made the whole process painless. I still had to do a little housecleaning (getting rid of old apps I never use) and had to fix a hack I use so Megan and I share the same iTunes and iPhoto library. It was all pretty easy.
One of the most startlingly (is that a word?) great things about having a laptop is wifi. Before I started the migration in earnest Megan and I headed down to Costello's Travel Cafe and used their Personal Telco node while we talked travel budgets and picked out a new digital camera. Then when I got home, I decided to see if anybody in the area had an open wifi node. Sure enough someone did. They must be near by (probably in the apartment complex) because the signal is good and strong. Thanks to my anonymous bandwidth donator for making this blog posting possible.

P.S. Apple's new dictionary tool says 'startlingly' is a word.