iBook!

Okay, so Peter (pmb)'s dad got an iBook last fall, after his epic cross-country bicycle ride, to write about the experience in a highly portable way. Then he started a job that wasn't even remotely iBook-compatible, and the laptop started frustrating him more and more. He mentioned this last month when he was in town for the Crater Lake ski trip, and we mentioned that we'd been wanting to get me a laptop for some time. A deal was struck wherein he'd give us the iBook if we procured for him a laptop that he could use at work, and long story short, I have a new computer. It's very exciting.

I've already had my first "cat walks on laptop" attack, and I'm thinking I should suck it up and reinstall OS X and start from scratch before I get too much more comfortable playing around with all the already-existant settings and suchforth. Anybody who wants to give me Os X advice should post comments now. Whee! I've got a big stack of disks for v.10.1.4 and the v.10.2 upgrade. It's party time.