{"id":264,"date":"2006-01-04T09:52:23","date_gmt":"2006-01-04T09:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/?p=264"},"modified":"2006-01-04T09:52:23","modified_gmt":"2006-01-04T09:52:23","slug":"tired-and-emotional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/?p=264","title":{"rendered":"Tired and emotional"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To paraphrase George Peppard in the of-it&#8217;s-time TV show, &#8216;The A Team&#8217;, I hate it when a plan doesn&#8217;t come together.  My plans for the four day holiday that has just passed included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><\/li>\n<li>Conducting an annual review of my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidco.com\/\">GTD<\/a> setup.<\/li>\n<li>Getting some serious blogging done here and at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bignoseduglyguy.com\/no8wire\/\">No 8 Wire<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Beating my offspring at some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gltron.org\/\">retro<\/a> games.<\/li>\n<li>Researching <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bignoseduglyguy.com\/no8wire\/2006\/01\/run-forest-run.html\">running<\/a> routes north of Auckland.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Instead, I managed to get my iBook to throw a hissy fit by:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Allowing a colleague to install <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/mac\/products\/virtualpc\/virtualpc.aspx?pid=virtualpc\">VirtualPC<\/a> against my better judgement.<\/li>\n<li>Trying to get the aforementioned and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.markspace.com\/\">Missing Sync<\/a> to work.<\/li>\n<li>Trying to bluff my way to fixing the ensuing chaos.<\/li>\n<li>Managing to wipe out my iTunes library with a iBook reset.<\/li>\n<li>Sending ecto into a crippling login\/rsgistration loop.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Luckily, I stopped bluffing and fixed the iTunes <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Snafu\">snafu<\/a> by doing lots of <a href=\"http:\/\/docs.info.apple.com\/article.html?artnum=93313\">this kind of stuff<\/a> and then got way too tired, gave up and went to sleep.  Having had this gnaw away at me all day at work and the dentist[1] afterwards, I came home and did a lot of file trashing, back tracking and head scratching, followed by a bunch of stuff nicely detailed in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oreilly.com\/catalog\/macxtigermm\/\">here<\/a> and fixing ecto by doing the <a href=\"http:\/\/guides.macrumors.com\/Deleting_Preferences_Files\">clever thing<\/a>.  Lessons learned from the last fours days?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Install\/load\/attempt one thing at once &#8211; Macs don&#8217;t like impatient humans any more than PCs.<\/li>\n<li>RTFM &#8211; rather than blindly do the same thing over and over until your blood pressure&#8217;s sky high.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amberstar.libsyn.com\/\"><br \/>\n<\/a>In the midst of all this mayhem and destruction, I did happen across <a href=\"http:\/\/amberstar.libsyn.com\/\">ZenCast<\/a> and downloaded the latest podcast in the series, an excellent talk by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbandharma.org\/kusalainfo\/page1.html\">Kusala Bhikshu<\/a> who, as well as being a Bhikshu monk, appears to be an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbandharma.org\/kusalainfo\/pictures\/thumb12.jpg\">enlightened Mac user<\/a> as well.  This hour long look at &#8216;Meditation &#8211; How and Why?&#8217; was just the calming influence I needed to see me through my morning and evening commutes earlier.<\/p>\n<p>With that, me, my karma and my Zen-attuned iBook will both now enter sleep mode.<\/p>\n<p>[1] $365 for a composite crown to replace a long-destroyed molar!  Maybe it&#8217;d be cheaper to get to the third Buddhist state, where being at one with the pain means I would feel no pain because I would be the pain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To paraphrase George Peppard in the of-it&#8217;s-time TV show, &#8216;The A Team&#8217;, I hate it when a plan doesn&#8217;t come together. My plans for the four day holiday that has just passed included: Conducting an annual review of my GTD setup. Getting some serious blogging done here and at No 8 Wire. 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