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There’s a Lion in my Mac

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During the last weekend I backed up Chie’s MacBook and my MacBook Pro as a preparation for the coming Mac OS X upgrade. It was a somewhat time consuming exercise but well worth it. Yesterday when I woke up the new OS version had downloaded to my MacBook Pro and I could start the installing the upgrade. Before I left for the office there was a Lion living and roaring in my MacBook. And it was an awesome Lion 😀

Once back home after a day at the office (where I most of the time just wanted to be back home with my new Lion) I started to download the OS upgrade for Chie as well. It had finished downloading some time during the night and when Chie was out of the shower the same roaring Lion was living in here MacBook too.



Now when I have had time to use it for a little bit more than just installing it and checking emails I can just say that my initial impression remains. It is awesome. Of course with the big conceptual changes that have taken place transforming a Snow Leopard into a Lion comes some difficulties for users. I, for instance, tend to scroll the wrong way using multi-touch on the track-pad. In Snow Leopard you moved two fingers downwards on the track-pad to scroll the content in the window upwards but in Lion two fingers downwards on the track-pad means scroll things down. Just as on the iOS devices, and just as if you would have done it if the screen on the MacBook (Pro/Air) would have been touch screens (how long will we have to wait for that?).

I am really looking forward to learn more about the Lion to improve my productivity. And I am pretty sure I will have a fun time doing it 😀

Going on a Safari

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Today we got into the Audi Airline and flew to Africa for a safari at Kilimanjaro. At least it almost felt like that, but we only went to the Fuji Safari Park at Fuji-san.



It was a beautiful day with clear blue sky, or piikan as a Japanese friend (Mash-san) taught me it is called in “real” Japanese. We arrived quite early at the Fuji Safari Park and while I parked the car, Chie bought all the tickets needed to enter by car and by Jungle Bus.



The best part of the day though was meeting with Leo, a 2 months old baby lion. He was the warmest, cutest thing I have seen in a very long time. The idea about just keep holding him and run away with him popped up in my head many times during the short time I could hold him. It is really difficult to understand that something so small (only 4 kg) and cute will soon grow up to something as powerful and quite dangerous as a full-grown lion.



After meeting with Leo the day at the Fuji Safari Park was over. We drove back towards Tokyo. But we made a short stop at the Gotemba Premium Outlet. Where we walked around for a while. I found a T-Fal water boiler for the office and The North Face Gore-Tex pants for snowboarding. Both things I have been looking for. The North Face pants was a real bargain, on top of the Outlet price was a 20% rebate. So it ended at 33000 JPY, or around 2700 SEK.



It was a long, exciting and very fun day. It ended at Ochanokosaisai, a local restaurant just around the corner from where we live 🙂