I don't know what I did to deserve this, but apparently I've done something good to deserve new technology. How sad is it that I'm all excited about getting a new computer at work finally? It's not all that snazzy and fast, but it was like Christmas in my cube before I left - got a new flat screen monitor (don't know what I'm going to do with all the additional space on my desk), new ergo keyboard, and a laptop that's actually portable!
More rambling in the extended.
My old laptop was portable so long as you had a network cable with you. It was so old that IT wouldn't give me a wireless card, and I wasn't about to buy one (it's the principle of the thing). Oh, and the battery didn't work and IT wouldn't give me a new one of those either, so you also had to carry the power cord as well.
So now I have a spiffy new flat monitor that I have to play with. (The fonts seem so little compared to my old monitor. I'm sure I'll get used to it and all, but it feels weird.) And I have to get used to the ergo keyboard. Won't be difficult, but slightly different (I've already had to work at hitting the y and not the u.) But it's going to be so much fun to personalize it with crap (IM, bookmarks, blah, blah, blah...) Wheee!!
Oh yeah, and the other part that I forgot is that my internet access is working again from home. Thanks to my friend (an IT guy that I shamelessly used to fix my network and didn't even buy dinner for) who came over and fixed in 10 minutes what I couldn't fix in an hour of tinkering. It was a stupid settings thing on my wireless network at home. But everything works again, so I can surf, blog, pay bills and otherwise dork off online. Woohoo!
Posted by cshell at June 13, 2005 09:15 PM | TrackBack