Month: December 2013

My new computer arrived on New Year’s Eve. It only took me four days to do all the updates and cleanups. Probably would’ve been faster if I had done something useful Christmas Day instead of sleeping through it. I love this machine. Frigging love it. If I have a choice if and when it comes…

I got the money from the prize at work and have now (drum roll, please!) ordered a Brand. New. Laptop! Woohoo! I waffled for a while over how much I wanted to spend and what kind. I knew I wanted Lenovo for a lot of reasons. It’s a business class, a ThinkPad, vs. going with…

Last night was the office Christmas party downtown. G and I normally go. In fact, it’s a big deal for G to go. Unfortunately this year everybody but me’s been hit with the creeping ickies. Since my daughter-in-law works for the same company, she and my son did go to the party and reported back on…

I am now the proud owner of a dead laptop. To quote the Munchkins from The Wizard of Oz: she’s not only merely dead, she’s really most sincerely dead. I’m using my daughter’s school machine for the moment, but sharing one laptop between a bunch of tech addicts isn’t going to work in the long…

Did you ever have a moment in life where you were pretty sure you were dreaming, even though all the normality bleeding through was trying to argue that hey, no, this is actually happening? Yeah, that’s been the case off and on for the past week and a half or thereabouts. Work has been odd,…