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Holy moly, what a day. I was up bright and early at 6:30 AM for my SEVEN AY-EM TEAM MEETING to finalize our marketing plan. That’s right folks, the insanity which was my suite of group projects for Marketing Management is complete. No more flaky team members…well, these specific flaky team members, anyway.

After that, I had ANOTHER team meeting at 9, this time with my Ops Management simulation group. Here’s our assignment - needless to say, when we all got on our call we were equally clueless, because although we’ve covered most of this in our course, our instructor didn’t give us much in the way of direction. When faced with that sort of thing, what does Snarkwife do? Why, she corners Finance Major Capt. UberHusband and gets him to help set her in the right direction so she in turn can help set the rest of her team in the right direction.

The fab part? We’re ahead! We’re ahead! We’re ahead! We’ve made the most money so far, which apparently, is what The Goal really is.

As if my day couldn’t get any more exciting, after spending four hours analyzing and setting up the World’s Scariest Spreadsheet for the simulation, I attempted to install Mac OS X Leopard. I haven’t mentioned my struggles with this so far, because I was hoping they wouldn’t ever make for a good story. Nice effort on my part. Anyhoo, I pre-ordered Leopard and it arrived on October 26. Wanting to back everything up and have some space left over for the future, that weekend CU and I headed to Fry’s and decided to try one of those slick network-connected external drives, so we could share everything amongst all our PCs. Well, the wireless connection between the HD and my laptop was wonky at best, so that HD went back. Last week, CU bought another one - this time one that actually connects to my laptop. With all of my critical documents backed up, I proceeded to try to install Leopard.

What a fiasco. After three failed installation attempts (with three different error messages, no less) and 3 1/2 hours of my life I’ll never get back, the friendly Apple support tech suggested I make an appointment to visit a Genius at our local Apple Store, because it sounded like I may have gotten a dud disk. Nope. Turns out my three failed installation attempts hosed up my hard drive, so I had to do a full erase of my laptop hard drive. Gee, I thought with the Mac OS, I wouldn’t have to do that sort of thing anymore. Anyhoo, I performed some expanded backups and successfully installed Leopard tonight. It’s pretty cool so far…will have to see how it looks in the light of day. So many things look way hotter at night than they do the next day.