Yesterday I was put in mind of a play I had to read for my Irish Literature class. You may have heard of it, though I kind of hope (for your sake) that you’ve never had to read it. Waiting for Godot is an entire play’s worth of dialogue between two guys who are waiting for that title character to show up—and we never even learn who Godot IS, let alone see him. The entirety of the drama (and in this case I use the word loosely) plays out in the waiting for him. (Or, heck, maybe her. Maybe they were waiting for Wonder Woman all along!) Anyway, Godot never does show up, which is why I’m put in mind of that drama now. I spent the entirety of yesterday waiting for a package that pulled a Godot.
Our local Post Office is the most strangely organized I’ve ever known. We get two or three visits every day from different mail trucks, rather than rounding up and bringing all the items bound for this address in a single visit. And of course on the day I was anxiously watching for a delivery, the mail trucks—all of them!—ran late. I entertained myself by packing up the (very old, VERY slow) desktop computer I’m replacing, and cleaned my desk, and sorted and labeled all the cords of things that had been plugged into it. All day long my Amazon app continued to insist that my new desktop computer was “arriving today”—but my dimming optimism checked out entirely when the third mail truck zipped away into the dark, leaving my oak desk-top still, well, desktop-free. That last delivery got left on the porch of my house since our office was closed… By that point I was pretty sure it wouldn’t be “arriving today,” whatever the app said.
I’m particularly excited about this new desktop because it’s a Mac. Used and “refurbished,” but Mac! I’ve been a Mac girl since my very first MacBook laptop, almost 20 years ago, and I purely love the ways my Apples work together. I’m reading a book on my iPad, and when I pick it up on my phone, it opens to the page where I left off on the tablet. I set a reminder on my watch, and the notification pops up on when I’m using my laptop. I airdrop photos and files from tablet to laptop. I copy a sentence from a text on my phone, then hit “paste” in a document on my laptop—and the sentence appears. You don’t even need to do any hocus-pocus—they just naturally work together.
My mom called me recently, to ask my opinion about switching to Mac when she buys a new computer, and I told her straight-up that I’m entirely biased: I’m an Apple addict! I did warn her that there’s a steep learning curve when you switch from PC, because the “how” of almost everything on the Mac is different… But almost without exception, the Mac design makes more sense. You get the feeling that PC is a house where they kept tacking on extra rooms and doors, stuck with what they’d already built, and just trying to work it into what they were adding on. Mac, by contrast, seems built from a blueprint, with a lot of thought to its design before they ever cut a board. Thought went into every element and every process, and nothing got “tacked on” to something they should have done differently in the first place.
At the end of the evening, my Amazon app finally aligned itself with reality, providing the disheartening announcement that my computer had been delayed, and is now “expected by November 20.” I’m taking heart, though, from the fact that yesterday’s delay happened in LaGrande (only an hour away), and today’s tracking already shows movement this morning, so perhaps there is hope for today. I’ll try not to drive myself crazy haunting the mailbox.
Clearly waiting is not my strong suit. I would have wanted to kill Godot.
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You are so funny!!!
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The day of the delivery is always anxious especially if it’s something that I “really” want. I hope it gets to you soon!!
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Living in a ‘rural’ area of West Virginia we always laugh and remark that the delay is in how long it takes the old Indian to canoe upriver to make deliveries! If we’re lucky he passes the mail off to the mule team down in Jane Lew and it gets here faster. LOL!
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Clearly I’m spoiled, even in rural Oregon. ;)
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Bought my first Apple desktop in 1984 (before Mac). Have had Apple only since. My laptop, iPhone,iPad, and watch all work together seamlessly. Good intuitive software so I can just use them.
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exactly!
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I had to read Waiting for Godot in high school. It was sooo boring LOL! Then we had a production of it at my college. Still bored LOL. I’m an impatient waiter as well. I also get bored easily when there’s nothing but dialogue. Check out my post about our mailman. Waiting for packages is one thing. Never getting them or being returned is another. https://belaboringthepoint.wordpress.com/2024/02/15/roger-rigid-the-sequel/
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I have never used a Mac only ever had P C’s, and waiting can be so frustrating
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Waiting for Godot is my favourite play that I have never seen or read! I studied other plays in college, like “A Dolls’ House” and “The Master Builder”, and a bunch of Shakespeare, but we never did Godot. That didn’t stop me writing “Waiting for Twist Stiffly”, about a group of 1950’s movie serial characters waiting for the star of their show to turn up. I’m glad you have a glimmer of hope that your parcel will arrive, and I’m not going to mock your for being a Mac user. Honestly, the linked-up ecosystem sounds great the way you describe it, but I’ve been a PC user for too long. Even if Microsoft is determined to prevent me actually using that PC for anything other than sending them data…
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Then I shall return the favor and not mock you for PCs, lol! ;)
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Well, as a long time Linux user, who has converted old or unwanted family cast off PC’s and not bought a new (or refurbished) machine for over a decade and a half, I wish you a speedy delivery and good luck, but have no idea what you are talking about…!
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Ha, We’ll see if I have any idea what I’m talking about! ;)
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I’ve been in your place waiting for an Amazon delivery that doesn’t show up as expected, it made delivery day that much more exciting for me. I converted from a PC to a MAC over two years ago, I’m a MAC girl now after using a PC for years. Congratulations on the new computer!
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It sure is hard to switch from android or microsoft to apple. I haven’t got the energy but even my computer guru son advises it. Amazon though I try hard to avoid. The two occasions I have used them they have delivered the next day. I am still amazed.
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It’s an amazing world we live in! :)
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Aww I can totally relate. Amazon often tells me “Arriving today” but it doesn’t. I get really excited and nervous waiting home all day and nothing happens. Now what I do is I check the tracking to see if the dang thing is actually in my town yet. Yeah Apple is so much better. So natural, intuitive. Apples & PCs like to fight
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Intuitive, that’s exactly the word!
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One question, did you find that lovely/interesting photo or was it AI generated or ?
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That was AI generated with MidJourney :)
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I’m a Mac addict as well. And, I took a class in Irish Literature. Some of it is …. different. Did you read At Swim Two Birds? On the other hand – there’s The Dead – perhaps one of my favorite short stories! Hope all’s well that end’s well!
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I think we read “At Swim, Two Boys,” but not “Two Birds”. And I’m not familiar with The Dead, but now I’ll have to look it up! :)
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It’s in The Dubliners by Joyce.
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Oddly enough, she didn’t assign ANY Joyce. Lots of Seamus Heaney, no Joyce.
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Joyce is probably the best known Irish writer so perhaps she thought most students would have already read him. Plus I believe he spent a lot of time out of Ireland.
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Ah, maybe he doesn’t “count”… ;)
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Love this because I KNOW. I have the patience of a gnat & hate waiting for deliveries when it’s something I’m looking forward to getting.
I’ve not tried a Mac. I got a new computer in 2023 & I’m STILL trying to work through the frustrations of Windows 11. The patience thing is part of Windows 11. I just want to turn the thing on & have it do what I need it to do. I’m way past learning a bunch of new ways to do stuff when I just want to make a grocery list.
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Windows 11 is a bear!
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Never cared for Beckett. Too pretentious. I had a university professor who worshiped the ground he walked on (never cared for him, either, although he taught a fun class on History of Film Noir).
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I’m with you! “Pretentious” is the word.
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