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I used this photos as my Holiday Card this year. Moo printed amazing cards for me and I recommend their services. I finally updated to a Flickr Pro account and as a free gift I get 10 Moo cards. Can’t wait.

This year Tom & I are will be spending the holidays with friends and family in California. I hope you have a great holiday season.

E

I’m so thrilled to announced that my new MacPro has arrived and is up and running.  Although it’ll take some time to really get to know one another, I believe we will have a very good partnership.  I’ve named the new computer “Ms. Apple”, as my previous computers were “Mr. Apple” & “Mr. Apps”.

I believe “Ms. Apple” will help me avoid days like today where rendering a 3-minute motion graphic intensive video takes 25 mins.  One mistake could cost another 25 minutes of rendering…and another.  In my rush today I made a few mistakes that had to be corrected.

I believe “Ms. Apple” will get me on track and help me multi-task.

I believe “Ms. Apple” will enjoy its new home.

I believe all this because I spent a lot of money, and it has to work.

I believe I am a slave to technology.

E

On the way – My new Mac Pro Specs:

• Processor 065-6508 3.00 GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon

• Memory 065-6413 4GB 667 DDR2 FB DIMM ECC-4×1GB

• Graphics Card 065-6363 ATI Radeon X1900 XT 512MB

• Hard Drive Bay1 065-6367 500GB Serial ATA 3Gb/s drive

• Hard Drive Bay2 065-6745 500GB Serial ATA 3Gb/s drive

• Optical Drive 065-6251 16x SuperDrive DL

• Wireless Option 065-6725 Airprt Extrm & BT 2.0+EDR

• Keyboard Language 065-6287 Apple Keyboard & Mighty Mse

Arrived:

• 23″ apple cinema display – some people are perturbed as to why I didn’t purchase the Dell monitor. Well, I got a student discount! For the record, I love this display! It’s brilliant!

I’m salivating for the rest.

E

Lately, logging on to this wordpress account has been very difficult.  In fact, my Twitters and Pownce have become VERY infrequent the last few weeks.

Here’s a rundown of my wherabouts:

-I rarely blog about work, but what I will say is that my freelance load has been plentiful, frustrating, and fun.  Thus leaving me hardly anytime to blog (and workout – Yikes!).

-Jango has had some bacteria infection which has caused a few sleepless nights

-my good friend Sarah has been on the brink of giving birth.  I’m happy to report that she gave birth to a beautiful baby boy two nights ago.  Mom, Pop, and Seamus are all doing well.

-Plus I’ve been sucked into: “Dancing with the Stars”, “Heroes”, “Private Practice”, “Grey’s Anatomy”, and the MLB playoffs

I guess I’ve been focusing on work A LOT these days.  But blogging shouldn’t be ignored. I know that.  I really do. My once a week pledge has already been broken – shame on me!

So here I am, trying to get back in the game.  Trying not to be so distant.   I just hit “restart”.

Earlier this week I did receive a response from my Dot Mac Specialist and I thought I would close this issue with every piece of correspondence as documentation. Did I really not give them enough info to help me?

Hello Eileen,

I am glad to hear that you resolved your issue.

Removing the SyncServices folder is a way to resolve syncing issues that are being caused by the underlying syncing engine being damaged. Unfortunately, without knowing your specific .Mac Sync issue (experienced in addition to your iPhone syncing issue), I could not give such troubleshooting steps out as they will not fix all syncing issues.

The post that you found is actually relating information from the following support article:

.Mac: Troubleshooting syncing issues or issues in the .Mac preferences Sync or Advanced pane

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306122

If you require any further assistance with .Mac Sync, feel free to reply to this email and let me know.

My phone is still syncing and working quite well – thank goodness!

E

After a week of frustration, I finally had some time to look through the Apple forums myself and found a post (see below) that helped me use iSync again. My contacts and calendar are back on my iPhone – hooray! (Although I really found myself liking google calendar). If you ever have the same problem, try the solution below.

So, thanks for nothing Apple.

E

PS – I emailed my “dot mac specialist” the post below

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My Apple sync issue continues, but I’m taking a break from complaining about it. Today is my 4-year wedding anniversary!!!

Tom and I celebrated last night with a great dinner at Michael Minna restaurant in San Francisco. I got the tip from Giada De Laurentiis’ travel show. She had the Lobster Pot Pie, which is deconstructed at the table and “reassembled”.

I watched it happen right in front of my eyes! More importantly, it was delicious!
You can read Tom’s Yelp review here.

After stuffing our faces full with a 3-course dinner, we came home to relax. Here’s a toast to more years of love and good food!

E