My new-to-me Macbook came to me with a minor cosmetic blemish on the bezel, near the screen, and two internal problems---the screensaver and desktop couldn't be set, and it had problems waking from sleep. I procrastinated getting it repaired for months, but finally took it in. The fellow at the mac store spent a lot of time attempting to fix the control panel issue, sans success, and they checked it in. When they called me in to fetch it, it turned out that they'd fixed the bezel but hadn't actually even looked at the other problems.
Did I mention that the Mac store is an inconvenient place for me to get to? Grrrrrrrrrrrr.
So, they call me back yesterday...and the notes said no problem was found. Counting to ten quietly in my head (note that the store is always a crowded, reverberating seethe of people which triggers ill-temper in me immediately even without demonstrations of profound dumbness) I demonstrated to the 'genius' at hand that the problem did, in fact, still exist. Without snarling at him. It was hard. I'm glad I didn't, though, because he not only didn't deserve my ire, he actually fixed the problem in 10 minutes and the dratted thing works now. What a nice guy.
I have a very mild soft spot remaining for "Mac geniuses" since I dated one once, though I doubt Josh has any lingering fondness for me. Still, I'm loyal and the ghost of association dies hard. I remain deeply, deeply pissed at Mac itself, though, for the fact that my new ipod will not speak to my old desktop unless I upgrade the entire OS---which is not only a bad idea but might not even be possible. And, I'll add, other than being mildly slow, the ol' emac works just fine, thanks! At least 50% of my desire for this toy was to play with it while riding in front of the desktop. How hard would it be to make all Mac gadgets work on all versions of OSX?
snarl grrr snarlyface growl. OK, time for dance class. Have another cute picture of my dogs.
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