As if blogging hasn’t already been light enough recently (damn the man! hehe), it promises to be even lighter in the next week or so, thanks to computer problems. My 17-inch PowerBook, a.k.a. “my baby,” is in the shop… sob sob. I took it into the Apple Store yesterday, and it’s due to be sent to an off-site repair facility tomorrow, because my sound card is broken, such that I can listen to music via earphones or streaming to my AirPort Express, but not via the laptop’s speakers. This has been the case since late April, actually, and the problem coincided with the appearance of a red light coming from inside my earphone jack… which, in turn, coincided with my iPhoto library hitting exactly 6,666 photos. Creepy, eh? Actually, others have had the same problem — see here — so it’s probably not Satan-related. :)

Anyway, I’ve been waiting for the opportune moment (as Captain Jack would say) to get it repaired, which meant delaying until after our 4th of July trip. But now I’ve finally bit the bullet and sent it in, so I’m temporarily reduced to using Becky’s five-year-old, spacebar-less iBook — the one she replaced in March — as “my computer,” booting it up using a cloned copy of my system that’s located on Kristy’s FireWire hard drive. Here’s what the setup looks like. My 17-inch PowerBook’s Dock looks rather tiny on a 12-inch iBook’s screen, but the bigger problem is the damn broken spacebar, which makes it quite difficult to type. Bah.

So yeah, I probably won’t be blogging too much this week. Besides, on Friday morning we leave for the firm’s summer-program retreat at the Grand Canyon, and given that a laptop isn’t really all that portable when it has to be tethered to an external hard drive at all times, I most likely won’t be bringing it with me.