The evil princess is getting older. She is still a pain when she is hungry but otherwise she is pretty mellow. She’s still adorable when she sleeps, which is what she is doing right now. She is looking all sweet and innocent curled up on one of Josh’s old shirts. He is still her favorite, almost 14 years later. That’s OK. He’s my favorite too.

One thing on the list is to redesign the site. I’ve thought about getting a pre-made theme but part of me feels like that’s selling myself short. I’m a freaking developer. I do still Heart Geeks, but maybe it is time to retire Millhouse.

I just felt a little sad and nostalgic as I deleted the files. I suppose that is typical when you are making a big change. Well big in this context.

Boy & Bear covering Crowded House’s Fall at Your Feet.

I had a dream that a coworker popped onto a table all I Dream of Jeanie like and told me, “You know what you need to do then, right? Just give them up and go back to it.” The amusing (or weird, depending on your take) part of it was that the dream was about Facebook, twitter and this site.

I think I was feeling guilty about abandoning this site and the 14 years of content I have put into it. Social media is killing my desire to write and babble on. If I can’t get what I am thinking about out in 140 characters or less, then it isn’t worth writing about. That’s not true and my subconscious was trying to tell me.

I don’t think I will give up twitter and Facebook. I am using them less but I need to start using my site more. Perhaps the dream was really about getting back to ME and not focusing on everyone else. Me being the site which is an extension of me and social media being my way of getting information to others and helping them, which I am guilty of doing constantly in life. If one can be guilty of helping that is.

Well, this was more therapeutic than it needed to be. Thanks for being there my blog. My old friend. Let’s try to do this more often. I’ve missed you.

There are many other things that make me nostalgic, but these just stand out. What do you miss about kindergarten?

I turned off the bassackwards mouse scrolling. Maybe if I only used a trackpad I could manage. For now, no thanks.

Of course I forgot that I should have made a backup disc (see LifeHacker’s Instructions). So I am redownloading it now. If you need to download it again, open the Mac App store and Option+Click on the Purchased tab at the top (for some reason other have had to use Command+Click).

Some info I have heard about the slowness is that Lion is re-indexing everything for Spotlight searches. It doesn’t explain the fact that opening a new Finder window and waiting for all of the files to show takes forever. But, once the re-indexing is done, it did speed up significantly.

I haven’t noticed a lot of extra heat build up, but those problems I was hearing were mostly on laptops, so it could be isolated.

I hope some of this helps someone. Good luck.

Oh… and I’m so excited that I got facetime on my machine automatically now. Too bad I don’t have a camera installed on this machine. /eyeroll

First thoughts. Beavis this sucks.

The scrolling is completely opposite of what it was. It’s like they are preparing us for a mouseless world. Oh wait, I think they are.  Everything is gesture based now which is fine and dandy on my iPad but it sucks for a computing environment. It’s going to take some getting used to.

After the initial install and reboot, I tried to open some of my adobe applications. Illustrator completely hung on me and Photoshop managed to open partially. After a complete reboot, things improved.

I use SynergyKM to sync the mouse to multiple devices. That is working fine. The scroll reversal works the same no matter what OS type I am logged in to.

So far VMWare Fusion is running with no problems.

I don’t run MS Office on my Mac, I run it within VMWare Fusion. The initial reports I have been hearing are not good.

Since it is getting late, I’ll end it here. Would I recommend it to anyone on their work machine? No. Not yet. You need to get familiar with the quirks and also make sure the issues with software compatibility are resolved. But that is the case with all OS upgrades. Just proceed with caution.

If you are going to upgrade, I can’t emphasize enough the need to enable Time Machine to make a back up of your system just before you install. At least that way you have a way to go back. If you don’t, you will have to start from scratch. Not the most fun.

I am looking to update my portfolio. I have been doing so much that it is time to update. Just need to think about how I want to present it.

Anyone else on pinterest? It is becoming mildly addicting. My co-workers have discovered it and it is a bit dangerous. There are occasional sounds of, “ooh, that’s so awesome” heard over the cynical walls. Yeah. We are a bit weird like that. So if you are there, you know how to find me.