I still need to post photos from last weekend’s celebration of Omaha’s first Apple Store.

In the meantime, here’s a favorite photo from that monumental day, taken by the ever talented Chris Machian.

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Last week, at the beginning of a delicious three-day weekend, I came across some news that didn’t taste so well at first. For simplicity’s sake, let’s just say that a potential opportunity turned out to be anything but.

As such, my spirits were left a little worse for wear.

When God closes a door, I’m told, He also opens a window. My cynical side hoped that window was on the fourth or fifth floor, which would allow me to subsequently end my misery.

But misery is much too strong of a word here. It’s more like months and months of planning for The Sure Thing changed in an instant.

So now I begin anew, hoping that these new plans allow me to stay on course, or veer off when necessary.

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Here are some interesting Web sites to click through if you’re an Apple fan:

• http://www.greenpeace.org/apple/

• http://www.greenpeace.org/international/ {watch the spoof on Apple’s current TV ad campaign}

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I’m sitting here and I hear “Stairway to Heaven” by Led Zeppelin on CD 105.9 FM, perhaps my favorite classic rock radio station of all time.

This isn’t the first time I’ve heard this song, and I know it most certainly won’t be the last. If anything, CD 105.9 has probably played this song 10 or 20 times just in the past week alone.

But I don’t care. At all.

Classic rock is the only genre of music of which I never grow tired. I’m not quite sure the spell classic rock has cast on me, but it simply won’t break.

I will never, ever grow tired of classic rock.

And that’s a promise.

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I found this photo while doing a Google search for Apple Computer images.

It’s Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak in the early stages of Apple Computer.

I absolutely love this photo.

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“Every morning I awaken torn between the desire to save the world and the inclination to savor it.”

–E.B. White

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A man just sat down next to me here at Whole Foods with a hideous HP notebook computer. As he organized his lunch, he looked over at my PowerBook G4.

I know what he’s thinking; I saw it in his eyes.

“I want that machine. Why am I using this crappy notebook?”

It’s clear that he doesn’t respect his PC. He has those annoying yellow post-it notes stuck all over the keyboard. And it appears he has some type of sticker or computer label affixed to the keyboard.

Give me a break, man! Computers need more love than this!

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Tomorrow I make my radio debut as a Cox Communications spokesperson. It’s a morning drive time show hosted by a man named Jack who plays lite (note the spelling) rock.

I’m nervous and excited at the same time.

Wish me luck.

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The calendar may prove that the first day of fall is Friday, but I’m here to tell you I’ve already begun celebrating my favorite (and fairest) of the four seasons.

Here’s why.

• I wore my pink turtleneck to work today.
• I’ve begun drinking hot tea nearly every day (sometimes two cups a day).
• I’m running the heater in my car in the mornings and late at night.
• I decorated my house for Halloween.
• I’m eating Halloween candy like it’s being discontinued.
• I ate my mom’s famous Pizza Breads on Friday, a 30-year-old recipe that’s pure culinary bliss and the perfect fall meal.
• I have a continuous craving for casseroles.

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My sister recently completed her second interview with KOCE, the PBS affiliate in Huntington Beach, Calif., for a position in their Marketing/Membership department. She hopes the position would evolve into a TV production job.

Moments after her first interview, Katie called me with the details.

“I realized,” she said, “that I need to be around liberal TV people. That’s just who I am.”

God love her for that.

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