my old hard drive, pansy, was running more and more slowly. i ran the disk utility on it. it was red. it said it was failing. this was not good.

james & i went to microcenter. bought a new hard drive. put it in an external firewire case. installed tiger. named it monkey. migrated everything from pansy over to monkey. turned computer off.

james proceded to perform brain surgery on the trusty laptop. took out the battery. removed a multitude of screws. some panels. the keyboard. other stuff. removed pansy. replaced him with monkey. watched james play “which screw goes where?” luckily no extra screws were left over.

popped battery back in. crossed fingers. hit power button (love that it’s the same icon as the power button in my car). watched as monkey booted up lickety-split.

all is now well in this small corner of the world.