All in all, I think the revival is going quite well. I’ve been more consistent with site maintenance the past week than I ever was, even when this was new. I can see that ever more clearly when I was fidgeting with the archive pages — pages which have proven to be more headache than I had anticipated due largely to my lack of insight into how to style them — and I saw more posts in this month than any previous month.
I’m sitting on the couch in the living room next to Milo who is very noisily napping. He’s been terribly congested of late. His breathing has a high-pitched rattle as he dozes in a nest of small blankets and afghans. My cat snores something fierce.
So, I went up to the local Apple store Saturday evening. Though it should have been against my better judgement, I could not pass up some of the deals awaiting me on the refreshed and returned table. I came home with a more or less brand new AirPort Extreme and a set of cables to go along with the AirPort Express we’d been using for a while now. I didn’t really need either one of them, but both were on my vague and tenuous list of things for my fantasy entertainment center. I had anticipated buying first a receiver and some speakers, but I could not escape the sale.
(I really wonder why all of these AirPort devices were on the sale rack. Methinks, perhaps, those rumors of a video version of the AirPort Express might not be so far off the mark. My local Apple Store had 4 AirPort Extremes, 2 AirPort Expresses, and a set of cables on the refreshed table. Now, maybe someone returned all of that, but I kind of feel like it might have been store models. Maybe.)
Not having a stereo at the moment I hooked it up to the television after reconfiguring my stations to talk to one another appropriately. I also realized that the Express will share the connection through the ethernet port on the bottom so I could finally hook up the Playstation 2 and Xbox (now that the new generation is upon us with all its wifi goodness). I thought I was going to have to buy yet another device to get that rocking. I’m really digging the idea of streaming my music from one end of the house to the other. I’m sure much more well equipped households are scoffing at my delay on jumping onto this bandwagon. It was purely a money thing. . . and I really don’t think I ought to be able to buy the rest of the equipment I need but I sure as shit want to real damn bad.
