At last….
my new laptop showed up yesterday afternoon. I had a pretty productive morning, work-wise. I scanned and filed and then moved the pdfs to the old Lenovo hard drive. By noon, I was pretty much done with everything I thought I would get done and was just basically waiting for the UPS man to show up.
And there is no more sure way to get the UPS man to show up than to be in the middle of some project that you can’t stop. So I made some pizza dough around noon, and sure enough, about the time I needed to start kneading the dough, guess who shows up? Yup, Mr. UPS Man.
So from about 1:30 to 5:30 I spent unpacking and setting up my new laptop. It has a much wider screen than the old one, so I have tons of space to look at in Excel (awesome!). And web pages look pretty cool too! It has a different setup for speakers (there are two up top near the screen) and the mousepad is textured. On the right side of the keyboard “IdeaPad” is light up in white.
So I got 95% of my programs installed yesterday. I moved over files last night (work stuff, personal stuff, music, etc.). This morning I buckled down and got my Firefox profile moved over (how I have missed my favorite sites!) and now am working on getting my email up to speed.
I have long term plans to check through my old Lenovo hard drives, make sure I have everything I want, and then wipe them clean to use as mass storage for pictures and video.
But for now, I am happy just to be able to use a computer at the breakfast bar while I bake cookies for church.