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How aboot that, they let me back in, AND gave me a 2 year work permit. Canadian border people are so nice :~)

Flights were uneventful, Air Canada's inflight entertainment system is an improvement, but still has some real issues.

Not much else to say, other than yay we made it out of Perth in one piece.

On the new MacBook Pro :D

So, as previously detailed, our orderly departure from Perth was screwed up by some piece of shit breaking into our place and stealing our MacBooks (Eliz's alum one and my older MBP), my precious coins and generally screwing with our stuff.

I'm so so glad it was covered by mum's contents insurance, or it could have been a very shitty start to our holiday. Anyway, now we're out of Perth, I feel better about actually talking about dealing with it all without fear someone is going to steal the new ones too (paranoia right? when/if you get yours stolen, tell me it doesn't happen to you too).

We got robbed on wednesday, claim started and approved thursday morning, got quotes for new laptops sorted out on thursday afternoon, and new laptops by the following wednesday (we could have got elizabeth's on tuesday, but elected to get them both at the same time). In the meantime, we packed and timeshared a plucky little iBook G3 700mhz with faulty USB ports.

Data-wise, Elizabeth lives in the Cloud, so didn't lose much, and my last backups were from March 30, which was a bit of a pain, since it seems GMail won't let you redownload stuff. But at least I know it's up there to search if I need sometime.. I was able to recover all the digital photos I remember taking, using PhotoRescue, meaning pretty much I'm back at 99% integrity, which is good enough.

The insurance company (RAC) worked with a supplier who felt the only way they could supply me with a 4GB/500GB config in time for our departure was to give me a top of the line 2.8ghz channel config. Awww. Also we had to get the new ones, with SD card slots. Also, since they stole the two macs with CS3 activated on them, I had to get a new copy of CS4. Aww.

The new screen is amazing, in terms of colour gamut.. it really is noticable. The only bad thing is the floppyness of it, if it's more than about 10 degrees from vertical, it will fall closed, which makes it a pain to use while lounging around. Will have to find the Vancouver Apple store and see if they can do anything aboot it.