Big Mac Attack

I think we all have those stores where we think "Man, I'd love to work here, but I'd spend my paycheck before I even earned it."  For a lot of women, I think these stores involve shoes, scrapbooking, furniture, or even dishes, but not for me.  I am weak to the mystical power of The Apple Store (and no, not the orchard Apple store!).  I love everything about the Apple store.....the design, the cool t-shirts that the associates wear, the vibe....I love it all.  Mainly, however, I love the lovely products with the sleek design and ease of use. 

I mentioned last week that I got a cool birthday present and I sure did.  It's a week old now and it's the best thing EVER, even though most people who aren't computer nerds like me don't even "get" what it is.  Are you really curious now?  Here it is, it's the six inch white box.

This slick little white box really packs a punch.  What it boils down to, is that it's basically a wireless router and file server.  It replaces my former wireless router from the cable company (saving me paying them for wireless internet every month), and also serves as a 1TB wireless external hard drive.  Yes, that's right. That's one TERRAbyte of storage, or 1000 gigs.  That's a lot of storage!  When I was in college studying computer science, NASA couldn't create that much memory and fit it into an airplane hangar! 

Anyhow, not only does this pretty little thing provide wireless internet signal to all of the computers in the house, but it also automatically does daily backups, and it's hard drive is accessible to all the computers in the house at all time.  So for me, who uses up a lot of hard drive space managing photos and digital elements, this is just wonderful!  I store everything there and it's immediately accessible, and it doesn't bog down my hard drive. 

Did I say how much I love the Apple store?  Too bad that the trinkets in there hit you a bit harder in the wallet than a trip to the scrapbook store, or even DSW Shoe Warehouse.

So how was your weekend?  Mine was busy, busy!   Yesterday we worked outside all day.  I swear, what is it with weeds?  They're relentless.  I also helped Andy repair our now 20-year-old split rail fence, which is losing the battle with termites over the years.  Yes, these repairs involved my use of the chain saw.  Whenever the chain saw comes out, he's the holder and I'm the power-tool-user.  I think he gets a kick out of his wife wielding a chain saw.  I admit, it is kind of fun.  I try not to think about all the bad things that could happen (I have to quit watching the Discover Channel!).....While Shannon was away at an all afternoon birthday celebration, we also took the opportunity to hit the bike trail and ended up riding 18 miles ~ that was a lot of fun, but wow was my rear feeling it when we got home!  Then it was back to more yard work.  I had the "fresh air sleepies" last night for sure!

That's it for now, it's Monday, so that means I'm back in the office this morning and gotta run!  New recipe tomorrow!

Comments

[Jaime]

What an awesome b-day gift! I love all all those little technological gadget like that. It's just amazing the things that they can pull off! Sounds like you got a good workout over the weekend. :)

[Andrea]

Never in a million years would I have ever guessed that I'd be a techie junkie, but I am. Even though I have no idea what half the stuff is or does, I just want it all. And I feel the same way when I enter the Apple Store ... it's like I died and went to Heaven. And I don't even have a Mac! Yet. Still working on convincing my husband!

[Robin L]

WOW Id be in heaven if I worked there, except I dont always know the correct term for a part so its usually "I need this part that connects to the thingy booper that keeps all my scrap booking stuff on" LOL Radi Shack workers see me coming and they RUN lol Sounds as if you had a great weekend. My husband would never let me use power tools with him near by, I just use them when he aint home.

[Carjazi]

Wow, sounds like an awesome birthday gift. I'm just hoping to get a bag to cart my laptop around in. lol. No mmore gardening for me until I kill off the posion oak in the back yard. It looks like it's just about everywhere.
Hope you have a great day.

[Jan C.]

Still trying to learn to use my MacBook, here. You are totally right about the bite the Apple store products can take out of your wallet, but *dayum* sure is a fun thing to get new toys!

[Amanda]

I would so spend my paychecks before I got them if I worked in any electronics store. I'm a gadget geek.

Sounds like you had a productive weekend. We took a lazy weekend and just had family time doing whatever since Sunday was only the 2nd day DH has had off since the end of March.