two items of science

1. In the "I wonder if that happens every time" column: yesterday I woke up (from, it must be admitted, not really having slept) and had a morning and ran an errand on the way to work and arrived at my new early start time. Today was one of those mornings where the alarm goes off and I am absolutely bewildered and cannot understand what could possibly be making that noise. Granted this was only for a couple of seconds. I don't think I was dreaming; I was asleep, and the alarm went off, and I remember sitting up and looking around and if I'd had a speech bubble it would have said "Wha...?!" Then I made the executive decision not to wash my hair today, reset the alarm instead of hitting snooze for however long, and went back to sleep. And when I got up it turned out I was a shade behind the clock for the new system. Got here only about ten minutes later than I meant to, but it turns out switching to a new schedule is not the easiest thing in the world, is what I'm saying, and it turns out? it's more of an art. ;-)

2. In the column to the left (initial experiments, I guess): yesterday I had a mountaineer apple, because they'd looked very nice at the supermarket and I don't think I'd ever had one before. I didn't find it all that interesting. I've got another one today, because I bought two (n=1 being a totally unreliable sample size!), so we'll see, but generally now that the honeycrisps are more or less done I may be falling back on pink lady apples. I know local apples are entirely out of season and I should find some other fruit to focus on, but it's really hard to buy local and seasonal all the time, okay, so I will cut myself some slack.

snow leopard install: hurrah

Yay, I finally got the new OS installed. Now the VPN is in the process of working itself into my life.

But! Now my DW reading page and the page where I read my brother's blog (which is over at blogspot) are not displaying properly. It's not a new version of Firefox, and those are the only two pages (well - all the pages at my brother's blog are doing it) to be affected. What gives, and how can I fix it? (My own DW page is also borked, but the posting interface is fine.)

[eta: And now a few minutes later DW is fine, but blogspot is still not right. I guess patience is the way to go.]

[eta: Am now downloading various updates - not getting Lion, but getting more recent Snow Leopards. Maybe by the time I get to 10.6.8 my display issues will be solved.]