Doing it the hard way

We placed our order for three new MacBook Pros back on June 7, but Apple has been unable to ship them to us in time to meet our fiscal year deadline of June 30.  Fortunately, the Apple Store in Des Moines has them in stock, so if all goes according to plan, a new purchase order will be issued this afternoon, and I'll be driving down to get them tonight.  On Sunday, I fly to Atlanta for a week of training, and I'd like to have the new machine to take with me, even if it means I spend my Friday night on the road to Des Moines.  Our purchasing deadline causes a great deal of stress each year, as goods have to be received by June 30, so every little hiccup or back order causes us a ton of work and headaches as we struggle to get purchased equipment delivered on time.

Free upgrade

While on our trip to Europe, my old Canon PowerShot S230 digital camera suffered an image sensor failure.   I'd given it to Holly to use when I got my new Nikon Coolpix 5200 a couple of years ago, which she promptly claimed as her own when the Canon died.  When I got back to the States, I found out that the image sensor failure was a "known issue" and that Canon would fix the camera for free, even though it was looong out of warranty.  Yesterday, I drove to the Fed Ex depot in Waterloo to pick up the camera ("In-Person Signature Required"), and discovered that Canon upgraded me from my old 3.2 Megapixel camera to a refurbished 5.0 Megapixel SD400.  Fortunately, I even had a spare 2GB SD card on hand, so I wasn't even miffed about having my old Compact Flash card now rendered useless...

Relocating

I'm spending today relocating my cubicle to a cube that I occupied several years ago.  On the plus side, I no longer have to share, but sorting through nearly four years of accumulated tech crap is a lot of work.

Another IT opening

There's another IT job open at UNI, as Assistant Systems Administrator in the College of Natural Sciences.

In Hanlontown

I'm in Hanlontown for Father's Day, after picking up my mother at the airport in Minneapolis last night, then paying a quick visit to my grandfather in Luck, Wisconsin. That's too many miles in 24 hours for me, it's going to feel good to hit the sack tonight, once the air conditioning brings the temperature of this house down.