He Should’ve Known Better

Helped Becca paint her room today and it actually went well—one of those moments where it clicks and you both think maybe we should do this more often. Then Basti came over for the Halloween DVD night and immediately set about finding something wrong with basically everything: the TV, the room, the chips I bought, my internet connection, my web editor, the whole movie selection. He wasn’t wrong about Wrong Turn being a slog, I’ll give him that. But then he said something about the Mac and I was completely done.

I know the Mac thing doesn’t land with people. I don’t use Windows, Linux doesn’t interest me, and the Mac is just better—faster, more reliable, more intuitive. All the software is there. The same conversation every single time and it goes nowhere. People have already decided. I’m not trying to convert anyone. If you want Windows, fine, honestly I prefer it that way.

What gets to me is someone treating your tools like they’re up for debate. Like you’re supposed to justify how you work to someone who doesn’t work that way.

I was recharging my phone card the other day and it hit me that I haven’t entered an activation code in years. That’s what a tool that actually works does—it stops being something you think about. It just becomes part of the background.