… and red. I love it that the elm (I think it’s an elm) next to the window of my workroom stays green so long. It will be beautifully yellow in a week or two. The street has been covered already in the red leaves of another tree. And I just picked up a yellow leave that had landed on the windowsill. Autumn is a good time to work.
Putting data back, re-downloading software, disciplining applications and the general behavior of the computer. I have my MacBook back.
Eindelijk online, De Reactor, platform voor literaire kritiek: http://www.dereactor.org/. (Of ik zie het nu pas).
Zondag, 11.30 – 13.00, regen en harde wind verwacht, maar zuidenwind hield het slechte weer nog even af, nog bleef het mild en bewolkt herfstweer. Lekker een beetje door het bos gereden.
Marcusstraat – Amstel – Beatrixpark – Oeverlanden – Koekoekslaan – Ringvaart – Amsterdamse Bos – Bovenkerk – spoordijk – Amsterdamse Bos – Kalfjeslaan – Amstel – Marcusstraat
Zaterdagochtend 9.45 – 12.00. Nog koud, de zon kwam er pas later door, meer wind maar nog steeds rustig herfstweer. Rustig gereden vanwege verkoudheid.
Marcusstraat – Amstel – Uithoorn – Vrouwenakker – Blokland – De Hoef – Amstelhoek – Veldweg – Ronde Hoep West – Ouderkerk – Amstel – Marcusstraat
Rustig hersftweer, nevelig en zonnetje, nauwelijks wind, vogels fluiten, bomen bedekt met stralendgele bladeren.
Marcusstraat – Amstel – Kalfjeslaan – Amsterdamse Bos – Bovenkerk – Nesserlaan – Amstel – Marcusstraat
This is my history with Macintosh computers:
– Mac SE 30, 2nd hand, already heavily used when I bought it in 1991. Still works.
– Powerbook 100, 2n hand, heavily used when I bought it in 1994 (?), worked fine, until it got troubles with the power and the battery. Loved it.
– PowerMac 4400, ugly thing, but worked fine and still worked fine when I turned it on 2 years ago.
– Powerbook G3, by far my favorite computer, the first white one. Best for typing. Bought new. Many issues: new motherboard (twice?), broken harddisk, issues with the screen. Got tired of the issues and bought a new G4. Turned it on more than 2 years ago after taking the Airport-card out. Has been on ever since and used it a while for playing mp3s and ripping dvds. But I do not really dare to touch it.
– Powerbook G4 12”, bought new. Issues within 3 months (harddisk failure? motherboard, I don’t remember), worked fine after that. It fell (strap of my bag snapped while I was running), and hasn’t been working since then.
– Macbook 13”, black. Bought new. No issues until wednesday. I hate the glossy screen.
I have enough of these exercises in detachment (or whatever).
Another laptop-harddisk malfunction and 2 weeks of work probably lost.
Hours and hours of interview transcriptions, everything I’d been working on last week (just in one instance I’d been so clever to e-mail the finished draft to myself. In all the other cases I’d thougt to back-up, later this week).
Down with a cold now and I simply do not know where to find the time to make up for this.
PS It’s the second time that this happens while editing a book for Sonic Acts.
A few days ago the American composer Maryanne Amacher died. At Sonic Acts we had hoped to invite her to the 2010 Poetics of Space edition.
http://www.maryanneamacher.org/Amacher_Archive_Project/Amacher_Archive_Project.html
Fikse verkoudheid in opkomst, maar wilde toch even naar buiten – mooi herfstweer en niet koud.
Marcusstraat – Kalfjeslaan – Amsterdamse Bos – Bovenkerk – Nesserlaan – Amstel – Marcusstraat
