I'm planning on getting one next year so I can give this laptop to the kids.

Yay for Seska! (And yes, Dr. Seska does sound vaguely evil.)

askye, I hope that the antibiotic regime doesn't prove to be TOO terrible.

InunpackingN, I really loathe unpacking wardrobe boxes. It's easy enough getting hanging clothes out, but if stuff is down at the bottom, it's a pain, because I'm just too short to easily lean in. Plus they're unwieldy as shit to break down.

So the plans have changed. Turns out my doctor wants the antibiotics administered over a longer period of time and the hospital didn't want to do that so now Home Health Care is going to come and show me what to do and I'll be doing it at home. I need to go and get a lab slip and tomorrow go get some labwork done to make sure that my kidneys can handle the treatment

it's really small, but I've been using a really small laptop for a while so the transition should be relatively smooth.

See, I'm waiting to see if/when Apple announces its tablet, because I figure Macbook prices will drop like a stone.

So the plans have changed. Turns out my doctor wants the antibiotics administered over a longer period of time and the hospital didn't want to do that so now Home Health Care is going to come and show me what to do and I'll be doing it at home.

Wow -- that's fairly intense! Is it the same antibiotic, or a different one?

Oh, Askye, what a pain for you! I am glad you are getting good treatment, but I wish it didn't have to be so much work.

I just talked to the Home Health place and I'll be getting Gentamicin. I need blood work done and I have to do that tomorrow so I have an appointment on Wednesday at 3 to get set up and then an appointment at 2:30 on Friday to check some levels.

Now I need to call my boss and tell him stuff has changed and also go get that lab slip.

See, I'm waiting to see if/when Apple announces its tablet, because I figure Macbook prices will drop like a stone.

I wouldn't count on it - everything I've gathered says that Apple views the tablet as an extention of the iPhone/iPod Touch line, not as part of the laptop family. (It's going to run the iPhone OS and the form factor is basically an iPod Touch the size of a Kindle.)

(I also think it's going to tank for the same reasons the Macbook Air did - it's going to be gorgeous and a lot of people will drool over it, but when push comes to shove it's still three times as expensive as the devices it's competing with.)

Glad that Dallas had a better night, Trudy.

I haven't seen Her Minor Thing, indeed never heard of it, until yesterday I was idly mining YouTube for Christian Kane and came across a clip from that movie of a scene where they were sexing it up. It was hot. Should I watch the movie or just keep rewatching that one scene?

You don't need to watch the whole movie because it's ... not good. But there is way more than just the sexing scene. I, personally, adore the photographing the wedding scene, the gym scene, the post-show scene and the park scene. Really, I can watch the movie in about fifteen minutes flat.

See, I'm waiting to see if/when Apple announces its tablet, because I figure Macbook prices will drop like a stone.

I wouldn't count on it - everything I've gathered says that Apple views the tablet as an extention of the iPhone/iPod Touch line, not as part of the laptop family. (It's going to run the iPhone OS and the form factor is basically an iPod Touch the size of a Kindle.)

I can't figure out what the market is for it, other than people who go "Ooh, shiny!" Because it's not practical as a laptop replacement for people who need their laptop for more than surfing the Web, and it's too big to slip into a pocket/purse.

(I also think it's going to tank for the same reasons the Macbook Air did - it's going to be gorgeous and a lot of people will drool over it, but when push comes to shove it's still three times as expensive as the devices it's competing with.)

And also this.

I think it's going to be positioned as an e-reader killer for multimedia stuff - most of the content partners are newspapers or magazines. Basically print media that works better with color and video.

But since it's going to cost A THOUSAND DOLLARS, why wouldn't the person with that kind of money just buy a top of the line netbook and a matching Kindle or Nook? Unless the iSlate does something no rumor site has thought of yet, like print money, it's totally DOA.