2009 March «

Brutus today scored huge with discovering our neighbor’s oversized tennis ball and fell madly in love. Lisa, our rad neighbor, let brutus take it home and he spent all afternoon playing with it and just had the happiest look on his face (as happy as a dog’s face can look).

For brutus it was a giant tennis ball that made his day. For me this week it was finally getting Adobe’s Creative Suite 4 for my Intel-based Mac. For those of you that think it’s nerdy, fine, [warning: nerd speak ahead] but I had a legit copy of CS2 that was based on the IBM Mac processor and ran like a champ on that machine. But I have an Intel based computer that when it runs anything for the old processor, it runs itself through another application thus slowing down the computing power. When I would run Adobe CS2 it would crash when 2 Adobe aps were open. It would take forever to open and save complex files. Now that I have CS4, things run so fast and cleanly that I would literally giggle with excitement that nothing crashed and that files would open SO FAST. For someone who’s livelihood is really held in Adobe’s hands, you’d think I would have picked this up earlier, but I didn’t.

The fact that files opened fast was MY giant tennis ball this week. It’s the little things in life that make it so fun.

In other Brutus news, he told me that everyone should listen to any band that contains any member of The New Pornographers. ( Neko Case, Destroyer, Swan lake, AC Newman) These are his favorite bands. That’s what he said, I don’t make this stuff up and interject my own opinion. That would be silly.