Jack Nicholson once said, in Terms of Endearment, "...I'd rather stick needles in my eyes."

i liked it.. kept the phrase..it's so perfect...

i wanted to upgrade my computer's memory... because a brand new mac doesn't come with enough to remember to blow its nose. It's easy they said. $100 for the stick they said. Just pop out the panel that is attached by ONE SCREW they said. Well, that screw is of nonstandard size. No one on the planet has a screwdriver in their home of that size. i had to call apple to find out what i needed... can't very well drag the computer to the poor sap at the hardware counter at Canadian Tire now can i? So.. they sya it's a teeny little screwdriver.. maybe one in an eyeglasses kit would work. Ok.. i have one of those... someplace... a place which is safe.. and shall forever remain a mystery because i cannot find it.

It amazes me just how the world seems to conspire against me sometimes. So i drive to CT and look for the right tool... but all of them have different sizes, even tho they have the same number on them. i buy a selection of screwdrivers. i can open ANYTHING now.

the screw finally did come out.. the memory went in.. i have NO idea if it's in right.. or if it's DOING anything.. my windows machine would have told me it saw new hardware and i would know.. my mac doesnt talk to me. we have a tense relationship and it knows i dislike it. It looks cool and it knows it.. it's extremely vain. The memory stick is really impractically placed, difficult to align and you really dont know if it's doing anything at all.

i think i may have just spent $150 to get my mac's hair done.