The Complacent Wife
Jul. 7th, 2012 10:52 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
todayiamadaisyHello, f-list. I am writing this on my NEW COMPUTER. So that's exciting.
I have had my old computer for only slightly less time than I've had this LiveJournal, which is, I think, slightly too long. It's had a few upgrades and has given sterling service over the years, but I have been nursing it through for a while now. If I wanted to open a browser window, for example, I would click the icon, then leave the room for a minute, and it might be ready when I got back. If I double-clicked an email, it would take hours to open. Well, maybe not hours. Five seconds, though. It's funny what you get used to, and what you are prepared to put up with when you're too lazy to fix it. And I kept thinking of all the things I would have to do: transfer the address book and the emails and the iTunes library and, and, and...
Anyway, things came to a head when my printer cartridge ran out. I've had that printer for nearly twenty years and it's still going strong, only the cartridges are harder and harder to get. They're not in the shops any more; they have to be ordered in specially with much commenting from the shop assistant about how ancient they are, as if I had asked to buy a typewriter ribbon. So I used the last one I had in stock, and thought, well, that's the end of an era. And if I'm getting a new printer, I should do the computer at the same time. And what do you know? Setting up a new computer didn't take nearly as long as I thought it would. The address book and emails are done, iTunes is done, Grisbi (personal finance software) is done (AND it's a new version, much better than the old one, so... bonus!). I also set up my new wi-fi modem. I know! So much work. I had to have a lie down after all that.
No, I didn't. I had some gardening to do. I also bought some seed potatoes. Low-carb potatoes! Forget about the Higgs bosun. Low-carb potatoes are surely the greatest wonder of modern science. I hope they're good. I also bought some oca (New Zealand yams) to plant with them. Aren't they pretty?
While I am posting photos, every month I make the paper calendar from Scout Creative. July's cat-in-a-pool was easy, but June's boat! Gosh, that was hard work. It wouldn't stay together at all. It's certainly not sea-worthy. I was so proud of my achievement, I was reluctant to throw it out, but I really don't need a ramshackle paper yacht with a June 2012 calendar printed on the sail, so I thought maybe a photo of it for posterity would suffice.
It's meant to be red, rather than pink, but my toner cartridge was already on the way out when I printed that.
Now it's back to work. I've still got my documents and photos and such to transfer, and then I've got to try and remember all my passwords for things like Evernote and Dropbox. Fun times.
I have had my old computer for only slightly less time than I've had this LiveJournal, which is, I think, slightly too long. It's had a few upgrades and has given sterling service over the years, but I have been nursing it through for a while now. If I wanted to open a browser window, for example, I would click the icon, then leave the room for a minute, and it might be ready when I got back. If I double-clicked an email, it would take hours to open. Well, maybe not hours. Five seconds, though. It's funny what you get used to, and what you are prepared to put up with when you're too lazy to fix it. And I kept thinking of all the things I would have to do: transfer the address book and the emails and the iTunes library and, and, and...
Anyway, things came to a head when my printer cartridge ran out. I've had that printer for nearly twenty years and it's still going strong, only the cartridges are harder and harder to get. They're not in the shops any more; they have to be ordered in specially with much commenting from the shop assistant about how ancient they are, as if I had asked to buy a typewriter ribbon. So I used the last one I had in stock, and thought, well, that's the end of an era. And if I'm getting a new printer, I should do the computer at the same time. And what do you know? Setting up a new computer didn't take nearly as long as I thought it would. The address book and emails are done, iTunes is done, Grisbi (personal finance software) is done (AND it's a new version, much better than the old one, so... bonus!). I also set up my new wi-fi modem. I know! So much work. I had to have a lie down after all that.
No, I didn't. I had some gardening to do. I also bought some seed potatoes. Low-carb potatoes! Forget about the Higgs bosun. Low-carb potatoes are surely the greatest wonder of modern science. I hope they're good. I also bought some oca (New Zealand yams) to plant with them. Aren't they pretty?
While I am posting photos, every month I make the paper calendar from Scout Creative. July's cat-in-a-pool was easy, but June's boat! Gosh, that was hard work. It wouldn't stay together at all. It's certainly not sea-worthy. I was so proud of my achievement, I was reluctant to throw it out, but I really don't need a ramshackle paper yacht with a June 2012 calendar printed on the sail, so I thought maybe a photo of it for posterity would suffice.
It's meant to be red, rather than pink, but my toner cartridge was already on the way out when I printed that.
Now it's back to work. I've still got my documents and photos and such to transfer, and then I've got to try and remember all my passwords for things like Evernote and Dropbox. Fun times.