more tech stuff

OK! Lets hear it for the first blog post written on my new laptop!!!

I was going to wait to get a new laptop until I officially started working (haven't seen that contract yet but I'm confident I will get it this week) but it is really hard checking your email on a device that refuses to load any single page. My old ultra-portable netbook has finally died completely.

So, as I still need to be in email communication, continue searching for jobs, etc. I had to go out and get a new computer. This is always a scary thing for me to do because I really don't know what I'm doing and that makes me vulnerable, which I really don't like.

Fortunately, I have access to a team of super geeks. They are super geeks in two ways: 1. they are super as in superlative, wonderful, amazing people, and 2. they are more geek than average geeks as in super-geek. And I needed them today.

I went to Best Buy this morning (another post later on my first day of non-employment) and was very annoyed. The sales person (I think he may have been 12 years old) never once asked me what I was looking for in a laptop but instead said, "oh! you're looking for a laptop? Let me show you my favs." Favs? Really? We can't even say the whole word anymore? It is just 3 syllables! Fav-or-ite. Easy, see?

Anyway, I wasn't interested in this child's "favs" so I left. I sent a couple of text messages to my super geeks and spent some time on the phone with a couple of them. Armed with more knowledge I returned to the store later in the day and ended up buying a new laptop WITHOUT all the fancy add-ons.

I have now successfully downloaded and installed anti-virus and spyware scammer/spammer finder whammer hoopla doopdi-do (I don't know! I just do what I'm told by the super geeks) and activated microsoft office 2010.

I am feeling very good about this new fancy, really light-weight and portable laptop of mine. New smarty pants phone, new fancy pants laptop, I'm ready to go!