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I couldn’t post photos before but here is the little challenge quilt I made for my guild’s challenge this year. The challenge was to make at least four log cabin blocks and sew them together into something. There were a lot of entries and an abundance of finished pieces.

It’s always interesting to me that I tend to think of my quilts as being oriented in a particular way. There’s usually no particular reason for this — at least for non-pictorial quilts. Last night though, looking at this piece hanging turned 90 degrees, I thought the effect was quite different and to my eye I didn’t like it as much. But that’s just me.

In other news, my powerbook arrived back from the mothership, replete with a new keyboard and battery. Although I might be lusting in my heart for one of those new quad powermacs, I have to say that after reinstalling the OS and doing a complete clean install, the little Rev A 12″ PB really flies. Since I’m doing most of my work on the G5 now, I figured it was a good idea to strip down the laptop a bit.

And finally, I got out my Rev A ipod last night, did a couple of software updates on it and it works like a champ. I got this in either late November or early December 2001. The date of the first iPod announcement remains one of my top-most exciting moments of working for Apple.

Anyway, I revved it up last night so I could take it to work today and compare it to the new ipod videos. The new ones we have in stock are 30G (as opposed to the 5G original) and are about half the thickness of the original. Amazing. But it was great to say that yes, this was an original – still worked, still happy after all these years, and it’s in really good shape too!