I now pronounce you.....

The wedding was lovely. The groom couldn't stop smiling and the bride couldn't stop crying. The flowers and cake were beautiful and the food most sumptuous. It was held at Annabelle Mansion in Burleson, Texas. It was apparently once the home of country music singer George Strait. Should Bear and I ever be allowed to get married in this country we wouldn't go for something so lavish or traditional, but it was a most pleasant event to attend.

Going to the Big D

We're off to Dallas for Bear's nephew's wedding. Then up to Arkansas to look at property for a potential relocation to the area. It will be hard to be without ready access to the internet while we are away, it it has become such a part of our daily routine. We will survive no doubt.

Maybe I will finally have time to catch up on some reading that always gets neglected somehow. More on how the trip when when I return.

I miss my tiger

Ever since my iBook died 2 weeks ago I've been forced to use my Dell PC for all my computer activity. The more I use Windows the more it just annoys me after the elegance of Mac OSX Tiger. Granted, there are some programs on the PC side I can't use on a Mac, like Hello, for uploading photos to this site for example, but in my general day to day use I MUCH prefer Mac. Of course, I have been a Mac user since they were introduced in 1984 so I am a bit more familiar with them.

Why hasn't Microsoft fixed the way you organize your links in Internet Explorer? Argh! Could the window be any smaller? Safari is much easier in this respect. And since I don't have a printer hooked up I often would save pages as pdfs for later reading, but nope, can't do it in Windows. (And yes, I know it is because OSX's Aqua uses display PostScript.) So when I try to save a webarchive sometimes it will work and sometimes it won't.

And why do uninstallers under Windows not ever seem to actually unistall anything? I can run them and think I am done, but nope, there in the Programs folder still sits the application folder FILLED with all manner of junk.

Start menu. Yuck! I could go on and on.

Ok, so you are asking why I even have a PC then if I dislike Windows so much? Primarily I got it to play games. And there is software you can only get in a Windows version, so you are stuck there. As long as I was just using the PC to play World of Warcraft (yes, I know it runs on Mac OS but my iBook couldn't handle it, it just wasn't powerful enough being a few years old) or Guild Wars I didn't notice all other things about Windows that I didn't like nearly as much, because I seldom had to interact with them. But after being so used to the grace of the Mac OS, especially OSX, I just don't see how so many people are complacent with Windows.

Well enough ranting. Windows users are the majority, and us Mac users just a small minority. I guess I will always be in the minority, one way or another, whether in lifestyle, beliefs, etc. I am pretty happy with that actually. I have no desire to be smack in the middle of a bell curve.

Badgers and Bears, oh my!

(l to r) Badger and Bear.

I promised one of my World of Warcraft friends I would post a picture of myself and my partner. I took this with my webcam so it's not the most flattering photo, but probably fairly accurate.

What's all this then?

I've decided to try out this whole "blogging" thing. I can rant or rave so my friends can see what's on my mind without having to to ACTUALLY LISTEN to my rants or raves. So you see, this is really for their benefit. At least that is my justification. Time will tell.