Mary Panttaja

It’s gently snowing here again this morning. It is supposed to be warmer and sunny. Well, we’ll see. Slept fine because we have 110 electricity and ran the little electric heater pointed at our bed all night. Not sure what we are going to do today—biking in the snow might be a little dicey for us. It’s started to sit on the pavement.

Research seems to say that my MacBook Pro computer cannot be run off of DC power except on airplanes. Even though I bought an official Apple 12 volt cable for my machine. The issue is supposedly about the mag-safe connector. This would be a real downer and lead to much more troublesome solutions (like generators). Not that we’ve got the solar thing to work yet. There are some hacks posted, so we’ll see.

Jim and I are working on some collaboration tools. After some research (not extensive) we are setting up shared calendars and notebooks on Google. I haven’t been able to make Google Apps work yet. We’ll see how these work for us. We’re looking for something really light-weight and easy.

PS. It’s really snowing here. My goodness.