Well, it looks like our robot overlords are upon us (having defeated a feline overlord)

For those not on FB - Dylan got his driver's license yesterday and just now drove himself to school to take his senior photos. He needed a little guidance backing out of the driveway (it's a weird shape and is actually quite tricky without a lot of practice) but turned safely onto Rt 9 and I haven't heard a loud crunching sound or gotten a panicky phone call so fingers crossed it seems all is well!

That's just one battle Toddson, the war is far from over.

Wow to Dylan driving!

Mostly I'm just very very angry and ready to argue with idiots on the Internet.

I'm very angry and not at all ready to argue with anyone which is pretty frustrating. But that is how anger takes me a lot of the time, so it's a familiar sort of frustration. Capybaras sound like a good alternative at the moment.

Both Dylan and car returned undamaged AND he made bacon for lunchtime BLTs. I think this kid's a keeper.

Both Dylan and car returned undamaged AND he made bacon for lunchtime BLTs. I think this kid's a keeper.

Dylan is absolutely crushing Tuesday!

Hey, Shir!

I have the frustrum. Matilda needs a new laptop.

As you may recall, JZ got a new laptop right after she retired last July. But as soon as she logged into it, her work IT somehow (they could never figure out how/why) claimed her personal laptop as a UCSF machine. This was never resolved despite several visits back to UCSF IT.

Because of this UCSF issue, Jacqueline's computer was not allowed to get on the internet even though she was logged into our router. Thus rendering her shiny new computer fairly useless.

I've been loathe to do a factory reset on her computer because I wanted to make sure I had everything off it that I needed, but now I'm at that point.

Tried to do the Factory Reset and I get an error. The error is because.... the computer is not connected to the internet so it can't Factory Reset!

So I guess I'll haul it down to the Apple Bar and try to get them to do something.

It's a spanking new MacBook Air but it's just a shiny paperweight with cartoony Out Flag Means Death stickers on it right now.

If you shut off the Mac, and then press and hold down the power button, it will give you an option to reinstall Mac OS. (You might have to wipe the disk first).

I do argue with them, but only as long as I enjoy it. If something really *hurts*, then I'm done(Which doesn't really happen that much now...not sure what that means) or if they're dumb enough to pursue it over days or something like that--not because I couldn't hang, because I am, almost officially, the stubbornest bitch in my state. But it's because of that I do have to remind myself that #shepersisted should have a weight limit or course prereqs or something.

If you shut off the Mac, and then press and hold down the power button, it will give you an option to reinstall Mac OS. (You might have to wipe the disk first).

I'll try that but Apple support chat is telling me I have to get the profiles removed by UCSF.

Bah!

So I'm on the phone with Apple help and they're trying to help me reinstall MAC OS through the Start Up options that Tom suggested.

And I'm most of the way through and there's an Activation Lock noting "this Mac is linked to an Apple ID and password previously used on this Mac."

Except the Apple ID is her old work email at UCSF which has been discontinued. So...we're stuck again.

I've had to submit a request to remove the Activation Lock.