Waiting, waiting, waiting – 30 July 2025

The new iMac was due to arrive today, so I spent the morning waiting for the big van from UPS to deliver the goods.

Scamp went out to meet with the Witches just after midday and I waited at home. It was a really nice day and I took a chair out and sat in the front garden, reading. I had lunch and although a message said the delivery would be between 12:00 and 14:00, no big brown van arrived. An hour later I got a message to say that the delivery had been rescheduled to 15:00 and finally, it arrived just after 15:15pm.

Since Scamp had been so good at telling me that everything would work out fine, despite my grumpy face, I thought it only right and proper that she should have the pleasure of opening the big cardboard box. Of course, that meant there was another big white cardboard box inside, so she got to open that too. Inside it, everything was packed neatly in more cardboard boxes and Scamp came up with a great idea of filming the unboxing and although we’re still a bit unsure about the exact placement of the internals of the big white box, I’m sure we’ll find a way of repackaging it if needs must.

PoD went to a Fuchsia in the garden. It looked just like a little fairy ballet dancer, or it could just have been my imagination running riot!

Just now, the new iMac is uploading the data from the old one and has been at it since about 5pm. It’s now nearly 9pm and the upload still needs to run for another four hours by my estimation.

Update: It took just over eight hours to complete the entire upload, better than I’d hoped.

Tomorrow probably another deep dive into the mysteries of the iMacs.

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