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Saturday morning I took Sienna swimming as usual and she picked up a Swimmer safety certificate. She was so happy. When we got home she ran from the car to show mummy.
After swimming I went to the local mall and got a haircut then did a bit of shopping. I picked up some decorations and outdoor lights.
When Sienna had a nap I put up some Christmas decorations. Sienna woke up and wandered around the lounge room going ‘Wow! Look at that!!’. Blake was impressed as well.
I got the ladder out and put up the outdoor Christmas lights around the gutter and along the fence. Another set of lights I bought are arrayed like a mesh net and I threw it over a big tree in the front yard (after first spraying out tons of huge spiders). I got a stick and, like in Shrek, swiped it through the spiderwebs. In the end it looked like fairy floss.
The in-laws turned up and Rebecca’s dad helped me hang up some of the lights. They gave the kids some presents too.
We watched a great episode of Iron Chef that night too. A Christmas special on desserts.
The next day (Sunday) I woke at 5am (no daylight savings so it’s bright at that time!) and started reaeranging the partitions on my hard drive from C:, D: and E: to C: and D: with a gap of 22gb between them. One 6gb for a temporary install of Mac osx86 and the rest for restoring osx86 to. Took me ages with lots of fiddling but I got it going. I installed osx86 on the 6gb partition but couldn’t get it to boot.
I decided to get myself and the kids out of the house for a bit so we went to the in-laws’ and I fixed up some stuff on their pc.
When I got back I tried some more troubleshooting but still could not get it to work so decided yo try reinstalling osx86. After about an hour it was installed so I rebooted and, using WinGrub, I selected the osx86 partition. I saw the grey apple logo and got excited!! It booted!
It’s running rather slow but there’s ways to speed it up.
It turns out the network card I had removed is compatible but the built-in one isn’t so I put it back in and got on the network and on the internet.
My keyboard and sound card don’t work yet but it’s early days.

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