Damn it. There’s no better way to express myself than by cursing I guess. But my iBook is at the store so that makes me sad and angry. Sad because I miss it, angry because this means I have to use my crappy Dell laptop from work to write this post. Yes yes, it’s supposed to be a very nice laptop (Dell Latitude D800) but it is and remains a Dell with Windows on it.

Anyway, yesterday I finally decided, after almost a year of doubting, to get wireless. I bought an Airport Express base station (yes those things are actually base stations, not just extremely cool “music over WiFi from iTunes to hifi” gadgets) and got an Airport Extreme card for my iBook. All went well except I made the same stupid mistake as I did 12 years ago when I installed my first modem, I didn’t push the crap in hard enough. It’s supposed to be very easy to install, but you just don’t have to be kind to it… you got to show it hell.

So I finally install it the way I should, and I see that the signal I’m receiving is terribly bad. I have to go sit on my Airport Express to get a perfect signal and going further than 3 meters kills the connection. After hours of googling, I figured it had to be the internal antenna that’s broken. So today I headed over to the local Apple retailer to take a look at it.

This is the first time in my life I take a computer to a shop. Really. I’ve been messing up and fixing pcs since I was 14 or something and every pc i owned after my first (oh my god what a piece of expensive junk) Compaq, was home built. When there’s something wrong with that, you take the piece to the shop, not the entire pc.

It’s scary though, giving your precious iBook to someone else. It feels like lending your appartment to a stranger or something, it just doesn’t feel right. That thing is personal, it’s yours,… I even have a hard time just letting someone alone with it. I didn’t know I felt that way about this kind of stuff until today. Damn. :D

But it is true that the thing is filled with your personal belongings and if you use it every single non-working hour of the day, well, it becomes part of you I guess. Anyway, it should be in good hands, seeing as a friend of kurisu works at that store, so I’m not worried… or should I? …

So I’ll be wireless soon enough and in the mean time, well… let’s catch up with other stuff shall we? Let’s do something crazy and instead of surf… watch a dvd! (Ain’t that exciting :D)