Todd ordered a refurbished Macbook off of Apple’s site the other day and he’s anxiously waiting for it to get here. Not only that, I’m anxiously awaiting its arrival. Is that because I’m a sweet girlfriend who wants to see her honey as happy as a kid on Christmas morning? Well, partially, but just like we’ve been learning in Bio 103 this semester, there’s a selfish motive at play here. You see, when Todd decided to upgrade laptops, he didn’t need his old (in relative terms–it’s maybe a year and a half) Powerbook anymore. And who should be there to take up the slack, to do her part for the greater good of Todd, but little ol’ me! I bought his Powerbook for the bargain price of $500. So the main reason I want his Macbook to hurry up and get here is so that I can play with my pretty new Powerbook, which I think is actually prettier than the Macbook Todd ordered. He got the white one and I personally dislike the plastic-y look of the Macbooks. I think they went down in style from the brushed aluminum Powerbooks. There are brushed aluminum Macbooks, but they’re the more expensive Macbook Pro version. The keyboards in particular on the Macbooks bug me. We were in CompUSA the other day and I got to play on one; the keyboard felt different from a laptop keyboard usually does, which Todd said was a good thing and I agree, since laptop keyboards are usually teh suck. However, the keys don’t have the nice beveled edges of the Powerbook’s or Macbook Pro’s that I like so much. Well, Todd likes the look of the Macbooks, and that’s all that really matters, since it’s going to be his machine. I’ll be tickled with the lovely silver Powerbook with its slower PowerPC architecture.

When Todd’s Macbook comes in, he’ll pass over the recently cleaned Powerbook. He wiped its drive and gave it a fresh install of OS X for me the other day, and while he and the guys were enjoying some Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter, I tweaked and customized to my heart’s content. The big thing I’m looking forward to is being able to run Photoshop in OS X since I can’t really do that in Ubuntu on my PC. When that happens, I plan on doing a snazzy new layout for 3till7, as I talked about the other day.

More on that: I decided not to wipe 3till7.net and do a fresh install of everything, as that would require a large time commitment and a lot of tweaking to get things back to how I want them. Instead, I’ve been cleaning out unnecessary files and directories on a per-item basis, as well as some WordPress tweaks. Today, for example, I cleaned out and reorganized my categories. As a side note, I’m a chronic list maker. If I’ve got time to kill, I’d enjoy nothing more than to be given a notepad and a smooth-writing Bic pen so that I can formulate lists of stuff I need to do, stuff I need to buy, stuff I need to wrap in prosciutto and slowly roast over an open flame… That sort of thing. So I made a list of stuff I want to do to 3till7 to give it some more oomph for the visitors:

• Marketing. Sounds funny for a personal site owner to be talking about that, as if a personal site owner is only interested in getting her thoughts out there, and doesn’t have the least concern whether anyone reads them or not. Bull shit! I’m a comment glutton just like the rest of you! In light of this, I’ve decided I need to make better use of Blog Explosion to get some new visitors.
• Layout. I want the RSS feed to be more visible. I also want to narrow down the main navigation so that it can be placed horizontally along the top of the page. I think it’d also be nice for the sidebar content to be associated with the page being viewed, so it would be possible to not have a sidebar at all.
• Content. I need to go through the content and clean it up so that every page is well cared for and fleshed out.