Readjustment

So I didn't even realize to what degree the death of my old laptop had crippled me. That was back in May, and without it I haven't gotten any serious work done since. I tried and tried and tried again to get something done on this damn computer, but it never worked out, for whatever reason. But now that I have a shiny new (well, used, but new to me) laptop I am back in the game. Of course, there has been a period of readjustment.

I like it. I like it a lot. All told, the new one is probably a better laptop than my old one was. It boots up faster, seems to run better, and that makes everything smoother. And if there's anything I like, it's when things go smooth. So much in my life right now is the opposite of smooth, so this purchase working out seems all the more like a major victory.

It's a little different, though, from my old laptop and from this thing, so there's a learning curve involved. I can't, for instance, hit the 'right shift' or 'enter' keys yet without looking at them, because neither of them are where I expect them to be. And the mouse is a little hard to get used to. The old one had the little roller ball in the middle, and this one is a pad near the front, so I have a hard time controlling it like I want to. If that's all I have to adjust to, though, I think this is going to be a fruitful partnership.

So thank you, thank you, THANK YOU Guin and M for making this available to me at such a good price. I owe you both bigtime.

The hardest part, naturally, was getting the files I wanted off of this and onto a disk. This is because my brain is not wired to do things like that easily. The first disk got fucked up somehow in the formatting, then I figured out my error and the second disk went as easy as pie. Loading them into the 'top was no problem at all.

And now we're back in business.

And I've been working oh so very hard.

It feels really good to be working again.

Really good.