Alarm, iMac and Fluff

Saturday: Woke around 8 AM to the sound of our house alarm going off. It's quite a noise. In my half awake state, I thought "Oh, they're coming to fix that soon, so I can just keep sleeping." MB gave me a nudge. Out of bed, and the phone rang. Smoke alarm in the basement was going off. Checked it out. All was well. Probably dust. MB and had sort of a breakfast in the living room (I had some chamomile tea, and toast, vitamins and water, she had some oatmeal). Back to bed (MB heading out to do various stuff). Slept until 1 PM.

Emailing, and some fried eggs. MB called a couple of times to let me know what was going on. Down basement and "morning" practices. Drums. Shuffling through papers. MB returned home. A little later, we made some bean burrito sort of things for dinner. Then tea and cake.

Email. MB continued with her recording project. I headed out to the mall. Bought a new iMac for the house. Did some more low-key Christmas shopping. Bought a funny book of photos of nuns. The lady at the checkout said she hadn't always seen the humor in nuns, as she went to Catholic school. Stopped at the 24 hour pharmacy for some small items. Heard a woman repeatedly describing a particular concoction of which she was fond: "First you take a big scoop of the Fluff, and you dip it into the hot chocolate, and then when you take it out, it just melts in your mouth." The fellow listening seemed very interested. "I'm going to have to try that first thing tomorrow morning!" he said.

Back home, hanging with MB and Gus. Set the new iMac to coping data from the old iMac. It looks like I lucked out this time: no dead pixels.