Yesterday I plied up some yarn that really gave me some troubles. (Read: I HATED IT!)
As a result, my son drew this portrait of me this morning.
I think it's a pretty good representation of how I looked.
And he got all the details on the wheel right!
Great, job, T!
I bought a new computer yesterday! Finally! I'd had my other one since February of 2002. It's older than my youngest son! (And it still works, too.)
But the allure of a new computer was strong. Well, that and the fact that it's pretty much been left behind by technology. Everything was "out of date" with mine. XP? Check. XP with SP2? Nope. SP2 installed? Tried. Broke my computer and made it load in Safe Mode so I had to get rid of it. Lots of things *will not run* without SP2. (Lots of things will, though, which is how I got on so long without it.)
CD burner? Check. DVD burner? Nope. I missed that snazzy option by a couple of months.
USB 1? Check. Firewire? Check. USB 2.0? Nope. Damn. (Another snazzy feature I missed by a mere 2 months in my purchase.) And putting in USB 2.0 would have been a pain which is why I never did it. When I had my old iPod, it allowed Firewire transfer. Then that one drowned and I got a new one. Which only did USB. So for over a year I've transferred with slooooooooow USB 1. But now I can play with the big dogs again.
My old computer was top of the line when I bought it. Flat screen monitor, auxilliary ports (front and back) up the yin yang, and not to mention fast fast fast. I loved it. We got along well over the years. We saw four (yes, four) reformats together, two different external hard drives because I kind of grew out of its capacity, and lots of files along the way.
But, as things happen, my head was turned by a shiny new one and I just had to have it. It's set up and running, but I think the keyboard may go. I'm a split/ergonomic keyboard kind of girl. I type fast (on either) but the split is so much easier. Thought I'd give the new keyboard a try when I set this one up, but man, I keep tripping over it and hitting all the wrong keys. We'll see.
It's going to take me the better part of the next few weeks to get everything installed and up and running on this one that I had on my old one. As I'm typing this, I've got my old one on the floor at my feet. It's on and in the process of burning discs to transfer everything. (Because with its limited technology I can't transfer any other way. Suckage.)
I was sooo tempted to by a notebook. I really was. But with all of my photos and music, I need LOTS of hard drive space. (Like an obscene amount.) And to buy a notebook with that kind of space was far out of the price range that I was willing to pay. Besides, I'm used to desktops. I like them. I like a real keyboard and mouse. Old habits die hard.
So anyway, learning what this thing does coupled with all the data transfer will take a while. Exciting!
I hope it doesn't cut too much into my knitting/spinning time.
