Am I a Mac or a PC?

Sorry again for the extended absence. What was it this time...almost 2 months? Would you believe me if I said it really didn't seem like that long?

It's been a pretty busy couple of months. I'll try to catch everyone up as quick as I can...

I returned to work at the beginning of July, as scheduled. Well, the first week of the month was mandatory vacation time, so I didn't actually start working again until the second week. Did I mention that the company killed our vacation benefit? They are also trying to get everyone to use up what vacation they had stored and that week pretty much did it for me. Anyhow, I'm hanging in there and the company is still limping along for now. It sounds like we'll be able to stay in business for at least another couple of months at this point.

My niece is doing well and getting *big*! My nephew's birthday party was this past weekend and it was a lot of fun. Much more fun that his last one since he can actually open presents and understand what they are now. First birthday parties and first xmas's are ok as milestones, but kids are still too young to really know what's going on at the point and it can be kind of boring.

I had a couple of wisdom teeth pulled about a month ago. Due to the problems I had with my last oral surgeon, I checked this guy out before I scheduled an appointment. I thought he might be pretty cool since my dentist mentioned that he knew I didn't want to go to my old guy (out of the blue - I don't remember mentioning anything to him about not wanting to see him again) and that he thought I'd really like the surgeon he was referring me to.

While the guy didn't come up as a donor to Prop 8 or anything stupid like that, his wife came up as a donor to Mitt Romney and the doctor graduated from BYU. I had reservations about spending my money with a probable mormon but then decided that was dumb and scheduled the appointment. I'm glad I did - he turned out to be a nice guy and did a good job. Bigotry can go both ways - I need to remember to check myself sometimes.

I decided to go to that military reunion I mentioned a little while back. A friend of mine from here, who was also in the same unit, was originally going to go with me, but he has to travel for work so I'll be going solo. This is getting long so I'll talk more about that later.

Finally, about the title of the post. My PC's main hard drive crashed a couple of weeks ago and I spent a few days thinking about what I wanted to do to replace it. I'd been considering getting an iMac for a while since I could dual boot it to Windows or Mac and with some projects I've been thinking about, that would've been a necessity. I found out that my brother had a MacBook Pro that he wasn't using so I ended up buying it off of him for next to nothing. Have I mentioned that my brother kicks ass?

I've never regularly used a Mac before so I wasn't really sure what to expect. The rest of my family uses them and had nothing but good things to say. After using one for a couple of weeks now, I think I'll have to throw my endorsement behind the Mac as well. I have fallen in love with this OS and have so far resisted the urge to load Windows onto the machine. I'm not sure how long I'll be able to resist - I am a Windows developer after all - but for now I'm doing pretty well with being a PC by day and a Mac on nights and weekends. Any parallels with my past are purely coincidental. :)