Have you Tinkled Today?

I finished backing up my iMac yesterday, and proceeded with the installation of Vista as a virtual machine in Fusion. It wasn’t difficult, but I can’t say it was seamless either. The Toolset did not want to install, but I eventually got it.

I now have Bernina DP5, My Label, Pattern Master Boutique V4, Electric Quilt 6 and Microsoft Money running in a virtual mode, awesome! The only of of those that gave me any grief was My Label. It doesn’t like to run in Vista period, and add a virtual environment to that… but it’s working! I was able to apply each programs patches as well, no difficulties there.

I’ve made my peace with Apple Mail, I finally figured out that the “smart” mailboxes are the problem. Once I set up standard mailboxes, the filters behave “normally” and all is well in my over organized cyber world again!

Jim is actually taking a 3 day weekend, unheard of! We hope to get some projects caught up on around here… we’ve got to re-organize the garage, measure for shelves and go get some so I can finally finish unpacking the RV basement and the Featherlite, there’s mostly garage type stuff left and I have no place to put it. I think Jim’s going to try and finalize his plans for the shop, as we’re way past due on getting a builder out here, he just hasn’t had time to deal with it.

I’ll probably do bacon and eggs on the grill when Jim wakes up, if it isn’t raining. Boy I wish we’d been able to start our orchard this Spring instead of this Fall, with all the rain it’s been a perfect year for it. That’s another thing I’d like to do this weekend, sit down with Jim and pick out our fruit trees and place a Fall order with Stark’s.