apples and tomatoes

[chhotii]

Another iMac here died today. Egads, do I hate the iMac. Having the computer and screen integrated together into one unit was cute, very cute, and not too impractical, back in the early Mac days (and on up to the Mac Classic and Mac Classic II). It's practical for a laptop computer, where the whole thing is small enough to fit into a briefcase and you gain the benefit of portability (or at least luggability). But the iMac is large and awkward. Where's the advantage, if you're NOT going to be folding up the computer, screen, keyboard, and trackpad into one neat little rectangle and tucking it under your elbow? You just have the disadvantages: 1) Can't leave the screen behind when lugging the computer to the shop because the power supply has died; 2) Have to be careful not to damage the screen when turning the computer over to open it up and diagnose that the power supply has died; 3) Limited upgrade capability-- no room for an extra hard drive in what is basically a puffed-up screen enclosure.

The minestrone soup from the cafeteria was really quite tasty today. I'm always surprised at how much I like minestrone soup. I should start making minestrone soup again. It always turned out better than I expected, no matter what I found in the fridge to put in the soup. This would be a good way to use up the last few tomatoes from the garden-- not enough to make a batch of sauce, and no more coming this year. Question: if I just wash and roughly cut up the tomatoes, toss them into a plastic container and toss that into the freezer, can I make soup later? Or should the tomatoes be processed more than that before I freeze them?