New mac.. Grrrrr. Argh! .... Serenity...

Well, my powerbook finally gave up its ghost in the machine yesterday. I am an experienced computer person, and I've seen a lot of machines go in my time. The noises that came from my mac before it died were really spectacularly bad. Luckily I had backups so I wasn't too stressed out about it. Just sad to see it go, and worried about the cost. I had to run out to the Apple Store to get a... NEW ONE... It's going to take a lot of sales of our software to make up for the "damage" done. *yoiks* However, I just feel great about this change anyway, although it looks weird to me. I used to have a 12inch powerbook, and this is a 15 inch powerbook. It's ENORMOUS! I keep walking away still looking for my 12 inch powerbook, thinking this one must be Stuart's 17 inch powerbook. So, anyway, I had to name the new Mac. I got Stuart the "FireFly" DVD set as a gift. (There are two kinds of people in the world, those who believe that Joss Whedon is a genius, and those who are just wrong.) He's amazing and inspiring. So, since it is on my mind, I'm naming the new Mac,"Serenity"... after the cute and hardy spaceship. My last Mac was named Buffy. The first rule of slaying is "Don't die..." so that stood me in good stead for a long time. :-) Maybe I should have named this one "Kendra." :-) The theme song from Firefly includes this wonderful sentiment: "Burn the Land and Boil the sea....You can't take the sky from me..." So I'm naming my new, way too shiny mac (my old mac actually looked the part) to be "Serenity", not because our Life Balance product makes me serene, (which it does) but because hopefully we are slipping past the "Don't Die" stage... and I have a feeling that what our business needs to do at this point is to: "Keep Flying..."