This turned out to be an interesting day. Interviewed two different iPhone users today. This morning it was Pat Wilson of Weezer on the phone. Those guys have sold millions of albums, they’ve been at it for fifteen years, and they’re still on top. This evening it was Kina Grannis at a coffee shop here in town. She’s known among geeks as the “Gotta Digg” girl, known among sports fans from February’s Super Bowl commercial, and in a few months she’ll be known to a lot more people when her major label debut album is released.
Talk about opposite ends of the spectrum. And yet a number of similarities. Both down to earth. Both a real pleasure to chat with. And both iPhone users. Then again, who isn’t an iPhone user these days? But it’s fun when you’re interviewing a musician and you can geek out a little on iPhone apps while you’re at it. I’d say more about it but I’m just plain exhausted. This has been a long, long week.
On the way out the door to meet up with Kina, the UPS guy showed up with my new iMac. Regretfully I had to take it up to the apartment and leave it sitting there still boxed because there wasn’t time to play with it before I had to leave. I set it up this evening just so I could download the near-gigabyte of software updates overnight, but the real playing will have to wait til morning. You know you’re tired when you’ve just received your first Mac desktop in nine years and your first thought is “I’ll deal with it tomorrow.” I’m keeping the MacBook around for travel purposes, but by the time the weekend is over the iMac will be my primary computer. Let’s just say that that twenty inch screen is disturbingly large.
The berserko internet connection, which is what sent me off the deep end on Monday, is still more than a little problematic. Bizarrely, when I came home tonight the light on the DSL modem was green, but when I turned on the kitchen light it instantly changed to red. I turned the kitchen light off and it instantly went back to green. Not wanting to spook it but not being able to see anything, I turned on the nearby dining room light, and sure enough, the modem instantly went back to red. Maybe I’m just so tired that I’m hallucinating, but could it be possible that the phone lines in my apartment are such crap that they’re sensitive to the amount of electricity running through the walls? As if any repairman would be able to fix that. I really don’t know how this is going to play out. But in any case it’ll play out another day because I can barely keep my eyes open.
All in all it’s been a good week, and I look forward to the next. I swore I wasn’t going to do any interviews next week, but Lisa Loeb is calling on Monday, and there’s no way I’m saying no to that 
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