At Rest

I pulled our almost seven year old laptop out of the closet, wiped the hard drive clean, installed OS X and added a wireless card, and now I have a perfectly good traveling machine. I wonder if you could install XP on a laptop running at 333 mhz?

Anyway, here we are sitting in the Townsend Ave Coffee House and Wine Bar (How perfect a combination is that? Come for breakfast and coffee and stay for lunch and dinner). By we, I now mean I. We arrived together but after coffee and postcards dutiful Diane has slipped off to the post office and to browse the local stores.
red_dress_sm.jpg
Walking by our table on Robinson’s Wharf, in Southport, ME.
local_band.jpg
Diane rolled her eyes as this band on the library common played Sousa Marches, but I rode the time machine back to an era I only knew from Saturday Evening Post covers, and perhaps one political rally in Nevada, Missouri, when I was fifteen. I missed the photo op of the day – hands on hearts during The National Anthem.
Closer View
Matthew drove up in his Mazda and joined us for a day and a half. We played three games of scrabble (they had no chance), and two games of mini-golf. In the first game Matt had two holes-in-one, but my sloppy score keeping ( I kept inserting his scores into my column) forced us to play that second game, in which Diane won. “It’s the sport I’m best at,” she said.

3 thoughts on “At Rest

  1. Putt-putt, lattes, and free outdoor concerts — sounds like a vacation! And your offspring deigned to consort with you awhile — bonus! What, no sound clip of the brass-and-woodwind belligerence?

  2. Linux geeks often brag about the smallest, slowest drives they can intall their favorite OS on. Never thought I’d hear similar brags from an OS-X fan.

    Just discovered that my home drive won’t even boot up on a DOS recovery floppy. I’m one step closer to getting a Mac Mini.

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *