Yesterday, at the end of a long week, I got a call from Joshua at the local Apple dealer. “Your Macbook is in.” A few hours later, the latest chapter in the saga of my computer had ended. Despite getting matrix-like lines on my first restart, a web-based suggestion corrected that. Now, fingers are crossed there will be no sequel. (Of course, I tried that before with Back to the Future, and that didn’t work.)
So now I have the task of taking time once again to realign my data. I had to backup and copy all of the work I thought I would need for about ten days in order to part with this Mac in the first place. I’ve been living on an old 2000 Windows machine, which had a strange sense of familiarity and incongruence with my current life. I don’t have a USB thumb drive, so there’s more obstacles in the path of moving the data back over. Also, I find that with SQL server and Pajek already installed on my Windows machine, I made use of those tools. Those can’t be transferred back to this laptop, so I’ve actually increased my dependence on the old machine. Fear of a logic-board relapse will also keep me from committing to this repaired machine for a while.