transitions

I still have one more day of work (and then a concert tonight) before I can start the party on the new computers (heck, the Mac and new 21" monitor are not even hooked up yet)... it's been a busy week... much to do at work what with most reports for my actual job are due the first ten days of the month and there's still a lot of the data job I am still covering as the clinical services director has until the end of October to have all the stuff moved over to her department... and the evenings have been mostly driving around in traffic to visit people who have computer stuff for sale...

and the login process on this new laptop (yes, I am sitting in the big green chair with the laptop) is not smooth yet as I seem to be logging in as the previous owner (I think he was the only user and I've got to learn more about XP so I can eliminate his user data without a complete reformatting of the hard drive cuz I don't have an OS to install and I want to keep the programs he has on here to explore them and he has a lot of music too)... and it doesn't have an anti-virus yet, so I probably should be careful wandering around the web, right? (where are the techie experts when I need them?... Mr. z, paging Mr. z... Q?...

anybody know more about all this stuff than I do?... see, when on the old computer on WIN98 (which nobody bothers much anymore), I didn't care much about protection cuz WIN98 was hardly a target, but XP is another story and I want to get virus protection (so do I spend $100+ to get protection for multiple computers since we have five in the house now... wait, the Mac probably has a different software and probably doesn't need it as much... or are the free virus scan programs just as good as the top line name brand "security suites"... and how much does Norton or what's-their-name actually slow down a system and is the slow down really worth it... and what about incompatibilities?... see why I stayed on the old machine so long, all these questions about protecting an investment... imagine if I spent $2000 on a brand new machine instead of a few hundred on this one... I'd be paralyzed with unanswered questions... stop laughing so hard, you'll hurt yourself)...

I installed Spybot... I like Spybot... it's smallish, runs in the background mostly, and seems to do a great job of blocking crap I don't want without interfering with or slowing down anything... in fact, it's already run in the background while I was typing this and I didn't even notice... and now I am trying out the Run Analyzer program the same guy (who is now kind of a team) created and it's running in the background as I type... no slow down... I am not sure if it pauses when I type or it I am supposed to let the computer be when it runs (I haven't found any instructions... wow, talk about earning trust, aye?), but it's doing something cuz the hard drive is spinning and the console says it's checking servers or something... wonder if I have to give it permission (cookies are off, I allow cookies site by site)... and it's free... I think the guy who wrote the program deserves a Nobel prize for being a good guy or something... and to think, he did it all for love... I really would like to meet him and be his friend...

anyway...

yet I made it... I am logged in here to my blogger account and typing this entry... I know I have a couple of days of entries backlogged to upload when I can, probably after the concert tonight, but for now, this is a new beginning, the transition from ancient to old, with just enough newish to be considered acceptable in the modern day computer world... perhaps you can stop stressing over my lack of ability to enjoy youtubes and other videos and stuff now, aye? :)

it is time for a shower so I don't stink at the concert tonight since I am not sure if I will have time to shower between work and the concert and though I showered last night, I figure an extra shower is a good thing, especially when sitting at a desk tyiping for much of the day cuz that tends to increase the potential for under arm rot (ok, so not quite rot, but funkiness happens in less than a day even with the best of deodorants and when packed into a concert floor like happy little music-loving sardines, body odor is a bummer, ya know?)...

tonight and this weekend I hope to explore this new laptop and hook up the new Mac and monitor and whine over not having enough time to play with everything as much as I would like and generally have just too much fun to be contained in words or any simple human form... you are welcome to join me, in spirit or however...

and now, to start another long day of work and play...

hope yours is fun too :)