I guess I may as well update the weekend right now, since internet access is five bucks an hour in the courthouse.

Friday was supposed to be the first short Friday of the summer (for those unfamiliar, if we work four hours in the morning, the university pays us for another four hours but lets us have the rest of the day off, all summer long!), but of course, as I said, I got called for jury duty. Boo. Friday night Ric and I went out to eat at the Elephant Bar and relaxed the rest of the night.

Saturday I slept in as long as possible. It's been a long couple of weeks. After laundry, ironing, and running errands, I made dinner for Ric and me. Then went to the store to buy plastic/paper plates etc. so we could start packing away dishes, and watched more of Lost season one. Now that we're watching the show a second time around, it's not as scary, but it's fun to catch on things we never noticed before.

This morning I got up bright and early at five, met up with Grace and mom, and we drove out to San Dimas to cheer Ruth on in her first triathlon. She's been training for a few months, a couple of hours every day, and we were so proud of her! She swam in a lake, biked through hills, and ran too, and she looked so great running across the finish line! Her friend Desiree ran as well, and it was so fun to see both of them have a good time and be proud of their hard work. We all went out to breakfast at Bernie's to celebrate.

And of course, as soon as I was done with all that, I met up with Ric and the Andersons at church, and we all went out to lunch. I couldn't eat much. It was fun to see them and hear more about Colin's next deployment, which heads out in August.

I napped away the afternoon, and now I think I'll work on some packing or watch a movie with Ric. I'm still determined to see Away From Her before it's gone from the Brea theatre, so hopefully I'll get that done this week, although I've got two Morrissey concerts to go to as well, so we'll see if I actually get to it! Should be a fun week.

Well, I planned to do more posts last week until I got hit with jury duty. Boooooooo! We all called in all week and thought we were home-free until we got called in for Friday, and then we thought we were home-free for sure until we got called into a panel for jury selection at 2:30 in the afternoon on Friday.

Right now I'm in the box and have yet to be dismissed. The bad part is that, instead of going till 5 on Friday so that the whole panel could find out who would be kept as jurors for the trial, they shut down at 4, and everyone in the room has to come back since they haven't picked any jurors yet. It was a packed courtroom, so it sucks to be us! I'm thinking I'll get chosen, because it seems like a lot of the jurors in the box right now are faking biases to try and get out of it. They suck. Will keep you posted (but not with any trial details until it's over, if I'm chosen)!

Side note: Any of you who watch 30 Rock, all I could think about while sitting in the court room was how no one could figure out the name of the blond chick's movie title because "Rural Juror" sounds so funny when said aloud. Heheh.

Don't let the name confuse you, this is another pretty sweet game where you kill zombies. The twist on this one is you are one of those block-head LEGO figure looking guys. It's pretty darn fun and bloody to boot. I'm off to go ride the Submarines, so I'll catch you guys later.

I like it: Camino
It's better than: Firefox on OS X
Why the change?
It's been two years since I switched to Macs and I absolutely love them. But there's a dirty little secret about Macs: Firefox, my favorite web browser, tends to run very slowly on OS X. A Firefox developer recently asked for gripes from Mac Firefox users on his blog. There was a long list. The biggest problem for me has been performance. After Firefox has run for a few hours, it will often be using up 20-80% of my CPU and over 400 MB of RAM (not to mention over a GB of virtual memory). Reports of memory leaks are common, but they're often blamed on extensions. I've tried running with fewer extensions, but it didn't seem to help much.

So, at the suggestion of a co-worker I switched to Camino. It's based on the Firefox project, but it's built to run on OS X. It fits in better with the Mac style and most importantly, it performs much better. I can run Camino for days and days and it will rarely use more than 100 MB or RAM. It seems to know how to give up RAM when it's finished with it, a trick that Firefox rudely fails to do on OS X. The one huge downside is that Firefox extensions don't work on Camino. It does have built in ad-blocking, so there's no need for the otherwise must-have extension, AdBlock Plus. There is a website with some add-ons for Camino: Pimp My Camino. But it's a pretty weak offering compared to Firefox's add-ons. There's nothing equivalent to FireBug, so I still use Firefox when I need that tool.

If you use the normal download, you'll be getting version 1.0.4. I recommend that you get a development snapshop using a tool like CaminoKnight. That will give you some of the newer features, such as built-in spell checking.

I've been very happy with this switch. If Firefox 3 works better on OS X, as has been promised, then I may switch back, but for now, Camino is the snappiest option for me.