And this is what comes of having espresso creme brulee and a cappucino at 9pm-ish... But it was a wonderful end to another wonderful meal at Starlu and thus well worth any caffeinated sleep deprivation that's resulting.
Earlier I had an appointment at the Apple store at Southpointy. The guru-on-call was very helpful. He tweaked the wireless antenna and seems to have greatly improved my Airport reception. He also determined that there's not a hardware problem. Probably I need to do an archive install of the OS (which one of the help pages online had suggested as well for the "can't find iPod" problem) So I'll try that over the weekend and see how it goes.
In addition to helpful tips, we also got a floor show at the Genius Bar, including tips on how loading the wrong sort of country music onto your iPod can kill it. I gotta give the guy much credit. He delivered the line with just enough deadpan to almost sell it. Or at least he might have if Sarah and I hadn't busted out laughing. But the top act in the show was definitely the young woman who went off on the harried Apple store guy (did I mention that it was super busy? I waited about 30-40 min before I got to see someone) about how she'd been waiting for 20 min. HAS-guy was clearly in no mood to be hearing this and said, almost without looking up from what he was doing, that since her appointment time was at 7 then as far as he was concerned, she'd only been waiting 10 min. Causing her to storm away, announcing loudly "I hate the people that work here." Causing Sarah and me to bust out laughing again.

good times...