We visited Zoe's mom last week. We hadn't been able to make it down to Tacoma since Thanksgiving. Her Alzheimer's is slowly getting worse but she did have some of that sparkle left. I don't think she remembered our names but she knew Zoe was her daughter and she was excited to see us. Zoe has more.

Zoe has been having her problems with her Mac laptop. It's one of the new Intel based Macs and she has been having all sorts of problems with it. We took it to an Apple store and they told us it would be covered and to send it in. We did and the Apple repair people said the the warantee was voided because of a pressure point on the LCD and they would cover nothing. Absolutely nothing. I spoke to them and I think I ended the conversation with the term clusterfuck. I probably shouldn't have but it was an accurate description of how they treated an incredibly loyal customer. More from Zoe.

Our power came back on Saturday. We were lucky. My daughter lives further south on the Island and her's came back on Sunday. My mom lives south of Seattle Tacoma Airport and her power didn't come back on until last night. There are still over 175,000 customers without power in the region and there is another wind storm coming through tomorrow. Our batteries are charged.