First, when I got this iBook, lo, those many years ago, I remember being excited because it had so much RAM. This is an 01 model, I think, the first dual USB anyway, and I had forgotten just how much RAM there was, so I just checked, thinking I’d switch some out in my new iBook. 302MB.  Um, whoops.  I guess this is from when the days oif 64mb was standard, and the previous owner dropped in an extra 256k. Well then. Since my new one has 512mb standard, guess I won’t take anything out of Ol Bessie here.

Second, I am way too excited about Dashboard, and have been perusing widgets, and am even more excited that they have an ovulation calculator! Geekiness and TTC rolled up into one glorious pink ball. (Of course it’s pink, EVERYTHING reproductive is pink, dontchaknow?)  Now, though, I want one for calculating due dates and trimesters like this site does, and then a week-by-week one would be great, with the Lennart Nilsson images? That would be cool.  I actually looked up some info on how to program widgets, and maybe it will be a teach-myself project for the fall or something.

Third, Dave bought his mom a DVD player for her birthday.  When we went to hook it up, we ran into some snafus wherein her TV didn’t have enough audio jacks for both it and the VCR, and the VCR didn’t have a stereo audio jack, AND macrovision was screwing with everything.  THe geeky thing is, is that it occurred to BOTH of us that both the TV and VCR were purchased when we were dating, and that we couldn’t believe we had been together so long that TVs from that era were lacking the necessary imputs for more than one device. He got it going by tracking down some 35 dollar cable at Radio Shack, but still, our relationship predates the DVD era! I mean, yeah, they existed, but for collectors only (Dave had one he paid a small fortune for) and VHS was the standard form of movies and such. 

A couple that measures their relationship by electronics advances, and uses a dashboard widget to schedule babymakin’ sex. Who can outgeek that?