Computer problems and troubleshooting *used* to be a normal, nearly every-day event in my life.

Then I got a Mac, and everything was great...

...for about 2.5 years.

Thing is, i've now gotten *used* to not having computer problems, and so when they inevitably surface, I get very severely irked.

Seems lately poor Hikaru (my iMac) has picked up "a slight flutter". Namely, it's has been displaying some video artifacts and occasionally causing the window server to freeze. Yesterday I wiped it and reinstalled, hoping it was a software problem - but I saw evidence of the video artifacts almost immediately, and strangely with greater frequency than before. After a little research, i'm starting to think this problem is heat-related. I blew some canned air into her neglected vents and installed a fan-regulator to bump the minimum speed of the internal fans for greater circulation.

Since the reinstall, however, i've had other problems. Some problems with permissions and indexing (which i'm *hoping* i've gotten straightened out) and a curious domino process-zombiing which seems to cause all attempted actions to hang - even shutting down.

I'm still trying to sort some stuff out, but I'll be watching her pretty closely for the next few weeks. She's still under warranty till August and I just may end up using that Apple Care plan I bought...

~PS

GET WELL SOON!!

they say an apple a day keeps the doctor away... I don't think it applies here though.