Archive for April, 2007

Aloha Photos

// April 19th, 2007 // No Comments » // tagged: >

Pictures from Hawai’i if you’re interested!! We took about 1700 photos … I only put 125 online though!!

Click here for aloha
photo happiness from Steve & Lacy


If you just
for a few pics … here are my favs from
each island (although it’s probably
easier to just flick through them on the above
pages!)

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OAHU


    Pearl Harbor / USS Arizona Memorial (beautiful memorial – I never realized you can
actually see the ship in the
water)

        USS Arizona 2

    Amazing Ocean Water Color (every single island – the water is this color
- it’s breathtaking sometimes)

    View from the top of Diamond Head
Crater 
(just glad I was alive
by the time we got up there!!!)

    Dole Plantation

        Pineapple Princess Lacy (seriously.  they had a song called the
Pineapple Princess playing … ) 

        Pinapple Prince Steve (you know he loves this photo …
ha!) 

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BIG ISLAND


    Whale Watching    (it’s the fluke!)

           
Whale Watching 2  (see the
fluke … and then you can see another whale’s blow hole in front of it; there
were four around our boat at this point; whales the size of a bus;
crazy!)

    Black Sand Beach    (loved this)

            Black Sand Beach 2

    Steve walking down Volcanic Lava Tube

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MAUI


    Ocean

        Ocean 2

    Maui Restuarant (who could pass this and not take a
picture of it??)

    A fish at the Maui Ocean Center with a serious
complex


        A stingray smiling at us ;) 

        A weird fish

   
Steve windsurfing

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KAUAI


    Wailua Waterfall

    Kilauea Point Lighthouse

    Waimea Canyon 

    ’Opeaka’a
Waterfall
 

    Lawai (near the Spouting Horn)

    National Tropical Botanical
Gardens

        One    Two    Three    Four

My iMac died

// April 19th, 2007 // No Comments » // tagged:

The impossible (or so the media and online world would have us believe) has happened.

My iMac died. Completely. Pressed the power key last Thursday … the apple logo appears in center, the spin wheel is spinning … and then an ominous dark grey screen descends. Then an even darker (and more ominous) little box appears in the center saying I am required to reboot.

I reboot approximately 37 times. Nada.

Then I reset the PRAM. Run Hardware Tests, Disk Utility.

Nada.

I can fix a PC with my eyes closed for the most part … but a mac. That’s another story. Especially an iMac that you can’t just pop open. I call my *mac guy* … he says it’s time to call my neighborhood apple store. Sigh.

I get an appointment at the genius bar … and carry my sad iMac up to the counter. You know you’re in trouble when the genius bar guy makes the sad sighing sound … tries 3 different keyboard/mice … 3 different firewire cables.

I hear them say “Complete hard drive AND logic board failure…”

Thank goodness it’s still under warranty … and applecare is worth every penny.

Got it back last night … spent this morning reinstalling and configuring.

Soo … don’t believe everything you hear. Macs do crash.

And I still love apple … ;)