Finally

We've been talking about it for months and we finally did it. We bought a new computer. The old one was at least 10 years old and was a hand-me-down from my Dad's work when they discard computers and allow their employees to bid on them. Dad won a bid on it 6 years ago for $50 and gave it to us. Pretty sad, really, that we've had such a crappy computer for so long.

It came with Windows Vista. I haven't experiened any of the errors that the MAC commercials point to but it's taking some getting used to. I can't seem to figure out how to become an 'administrator' on this thing so I can download programs directly to C:, it keeps telling me I need to contact the administrator for permission. Um, I AM the administrator. And MSN Messenger isn't working either. This thing won't even recognize the file so obviously I did something wrong along the way.

We had a 30G hard drive added into the old computer (seems so small now that this one is 320G) for all our pictures and music. I need to have that moved over to this one eventually. But we forgot to get all the links from our Favourites menu. Well, I say 'we' but I really mean Craig. He's not a thinker like me. When he decides he wants to do something he never thinks it through before doing it. Like disconnecting the old computer. He just unplugged it. Exqueeze me, there's all sorts of stuff on there that we need to keep! We can't just discard it. I have resume info in case I ever decide to return to work, and all our music and photos, and programs that I'll need! It's going to be a busy few weeks while I try and get this faster but bare-bones computer up to standards.

But for now, I'm really enjoying the quiet operation since it isn't 'canning' 24/7!