Yesterday we were over at our friend Bev’s. She lives a fair piece from us in Camarillo (can you say “back of beyond”?), so we planned on making a day of it. Our mission: hook her iMac G5 up with a second monitor using Screen Spanning Doctor. See, the iMacs out of the box can only mirror with a second display and as a budding graphic designer she wanted the full glory of two screens. We brought over a little mini-DVI to VGA connector (not to be confused with the identical looking adapter that works on the Intel iMacs) and a 19″ LCD monitor and downloaded the software when we got there. A few minutes later the two screens were happily spanning. Awesome! We had anticipated having to wrestle the computer into submission after a long battle so this quick fix meant we had more time to visit and play (and go hiking in Point Mugu State Park – photos here of the hike). When we got back from hiking one thing led to another and we somehow wound up trying on tiaras. Let me just say that dressing Chuck up is NEARLY as much fun as dressing up Mia. I can’t wait to see him in the evening gown that accompanies the tiara.

On to the diva smackdown. I’ll let you decide who best channeled their inner princess: