So much has happened in the last month, and I haven’t told the internets a thing about it! For one thing, there was a scare going around that people using the older versions of WordPress were getting there shit hacked and all their files deleted. This scare triumphed over my fear that if I updated WordPress it would be incompatible with my old Flash player on my out-of-date Firefox and my what-the-hell-cat-was-that? operating system. Well, it turns out that first fear was well-founded because once I updated my WordPress, I couldn’t do nothin with it.

But! Josh, one of my new friends here at my new school had an old upgrade disk for OS 10.4 – Tiiiigah Styyyyle. Now (you can stop reading if this is too nerdy), since my aging computer’s CD/DVD drive is busted, I couldn’t just stick it in the computer. I had to pop it in Caitlin’s old laptop, start it up in external hard drive mode (which happens if you connect the two computers with a firewire and hold down the T button on the one of them). This worked, and thus the little PowerBook was also an external disk drive! Hurray! But then, while the new printer drivers that I don’t need were installing, the shit crashed. My computer was dead. I installed the Tiger on the laptop and today I did some searching around to figure out what to do. I was able to do the old hookup trick and then hold down the Option key on the big computer so I could tell it how to boot, and lo and behold, it all worked! I feel like I’m in the future with this fancy Firefox 3 and this crazy Dashboard application!!

I’ll try to catch youse up on what else has been going on in subsequent posts. I’ve got plenty of drawings to show you and that’s for sure. In the meantime, here comes one from my first drawing class. We were to draw a man made object in outline, Xerox it thrice, then on one draw in high contrast, on two draw in gray, and on three draw in both. This is the third version of the White River Junction train station. It’s pretty cold up here.