The PowerBook, she is behaving badly. I loaded a CD into the drive, as I often do, and installed what needed to be installed. Excellent. A press of the eject key produced a series of sounds as follows: “bzzzzz-shhhhhwwwTHUNK zzzzzzssshhwippp Whrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.” The thunk was the CD, instead of ejecting through the CD sized slot in the case, slamming at mach 4 against the inside of the case.

Beyond that, the laptop works like a charm. It is still under warrantly, so I’ll take it in next week. I’m perversely delighted that I have a provable problem to present to the repair staff.