adobe : n. : a sun-dried, unburned brick of clay and straw. so, recently cordilia, our mac mini, needed to have her operating system reinstalled. I chose to do a clean install because she was having serious issues with tigger. ( not tiger, tigger. cause steve jobs owns a chunk of disney now... and they own whiney the poo... you know... anyhow... ) so, like, when ever one does a clean install, one has issues. here are the ones I have had so far: 1) lost email - I have officially lost about 8 months of digital corrispondance. 2) lost contact lists - where my girls at, not the front or back, and I mean that... 3) adobe photoshop is pooched - so, what for some is an 'easter egg' is for me an issue. photoshop is now space monkey. so, if anyone has ever dealt with adobe's technical support they will know you have one of few options. here they are in order of 'ease of use': 1) google 2) a hammer 3) adobe's user knowledge base ( if you can manage to find it, log into it, and read it. ) 4) adobe's support literature 5) adobe's phone support notice how a hammer is more useful for technical problems than adobe's support network. that is a key point of the list. so, at some time tomorrow I am calling adobe, from work, to get a challenge code so I can once again install photoshop on my machine. again. for the third time. which isn't any fault of adobe's, but this bloody challenge code shit is such a waste of their time and mine. why the hell didn't they just say 'oh, upgrading from archaic photoshop? here is a new serial number sir, thank you for continuing to use our product.' when I have photoshop again, and can edit images again, I will post a screen shot of adobe: space monkey starting up. right after I send travis a better logo... just think, I get to do this again when I upgrade my copy of illustrator.