la conversación

had a good weekend down visiting my parents. this was the “it’s been too long since you’ve come and seen us although you only live an hour away” visit, but also it was the “we’re old now so we have to tell you things” conversation. old? how can my parents be old? oh yeah, that’s right, I’M OLD. thus, they have to be old+.

no, not really, but my parents are getting up there, so they sat me down and told me where all the important documents are (secret panel behind velvet painting of drunken frogs singing and wearing sombreros), and where all the money is squirrelled away (tin pirate chest buried in back yard, underneath the chestnut tree with a Y fork). also, i learned that they’d rather be cremated, and the ashes don’t have to go back to taiwan. i can scatter them anywhere (shea stadium? back in the tin pirate chest?) or maybe even keep them in an urn on the mantle (mental note: buy mantle).

hmc came out to visit and see them as well, and also got to pick up her new macbook pro. the migration assistant worked surprisingly well in transferring her old account and applications to the new laptop. however, there was a small glitch in that i already had a account with the same name that i created when setting up the laptop, so i had to rename her old account to some other name. nothing big, but i see weird glitches in our future. it would have been easier if i had her laptop when i was first setting up, or if i had just made some dummy root account. live and learn, i guess.

in any case, the net net is that my parents are happy and well, hmc is happy and macbook pro-ed, and now she wants crazy stuff like a handle and a velvet sleeve.

Posted at June 25, 2006 11:33 PM