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Coming to you live....
Oct. 28th, 2018 09:18 pm...from the new LaNova laptop....
Maybe the problem with the last one is that I never named it. It was a Dell, dude, and for the first ten months it was a little cranky with my old XP-era programs and slow to load pages but was generally fine. But when the bottom row (and a few other random keys) shit the bed a month or so ago, and I discovered that Dell, dude, would only repair it if I shipped it back to them for at least two weeks, I hunkered down and was determined to repair it myself so I could turn it around in a day or so even if it voided the remaining month or so of my warranty.
Friday, that dream died. My nearby guru had ordered a $30 replacement KB, and I brought it over for a quick repair. Instead, it was a quick disappointment: Dell had fused the fucking keyboard to the motherboard, and the only way to replace one was to replace both, with even reconditioned ones starting close to 200 bucks. This got it close enough to Replacement Territory for me to surrender, and so I went SHO-pping yesterday for a laptop that would hold down the fort while I shipped the DeadDell back.
The nominee quickly became a Lenovo. Eleanor's had a Thinkpad from them for a year or so; I found a cheaper Ideapad, but with several of my preferred "gets"- a built-in CD/DVD drive, a calculator keyboard next to the QWERTY lineup, and a decent amount of storage- and walked out of Best Buy with it yesterday afternoon on a financing deal that won't cost me anything for it until sometime next year. That left today for the dirty job of getting it ready for work. This went incredibly well so far: my document/spreadsheet files were already cloud-synced and showed up instantly, my BK software and client files transferred through a simple copy/paste, and my other ancient 200-ought proggies all installed and opened files with minimal compatibility problems.
All that's left is iTunes, which I'm using this opportunity to clean up several dead laptops' worth of mishmash and getting everything into a single file structure. It went so well, the name came quickly: Lenovo became LaNova, the local Mafia-owned pizza joint which has essentially ended organized crime in Western NY because their profits from pies are better than any of their illegitimate businesses had been bringing in. So there's been all of that. Since last posting here, let's see: I met up with a high school friend who I hadn't seen since we graduated, who was making sales calls all of last week on local real estate offices, and we had a great time reconnecting; I got a new tag for the dear-departed-but-came-home-kitty-
- and one day this week, The Schwartz was with me!
That's all I've got for the weekend. Check, please!
Maybe the problem with the last one is that I never named it. It was a Dell, dude, and for the first ten months it was a little cranky with my old XP-era programs and slow to load pages but was generally fine. But when the bottom row (and a few other random keys) shit the bed a month or so ago, and I discovered that Dell, dude, would only repair it if I shipped it back to them for at least two weeks, I hunkered down and was determined to repair it myself so I could turn it around in a day or so even if it voided the remaining month or so of my warranty.
Friday, that dream died. My nearby guru had ordered a $30 replacement KB, and I brought it over for a quick repair. Instead, it was a quick disappointment: Dell had fused the fucking keyboard to the motherboard, and the only way to replace one was to replace both, with even reconditioned ones starting close to 200 bucks. This got it close enough to Replacement Territory for me to surrender, and so I went SHO-pping yesterday for a laptop that would hold down the fort while I shipped the DeadDell back.
The nominee quickly became a Lenovo. Eleanor's had a Thinkpad from them for a year or so; I found a cheaper Ideapad, but with several of my preferred "gets"- a built-in CD/DVD drive, a calculator keyboard next to the QWERTY lineup, and a decent amount of storage- and walked out of Best Buy with it yesterday afternoon on a financing deal that won't cost me anything for it until sometime next year. That left today for the dirty job of getting it ready for work. This went incredibly well so far: my document/spreadsheet files were already cloud-synced and showed up instantly, my BK software and client files transferred through a simple copy/paste, and my other ancient 200-ought proggies all installed and opened files with minimal compatibility problems.
All that's left is iTunes, which I'm using this opportunity to clean up several dead laptops' worth of mishmash and getting everything into a single file structure. It went so well, the name came quickly: Lenovo became LaNova, the local Mafia-owned pizza joint which has essentially ended organized crime in Western NY because their profits from pies are better than any of their illegitimate businesses had been bringing in. So there's been all of that. Since last posting here, let's see: I met up with a high school friend who I hadn't seen since we graduated, who was making sales calls all of last week on local real estate offices, and we had a great time reconnecting; I got a new tag for the dear-departed-but-came-home-kitty-
- and one day this week, The Schwartz was with me!
That's all I've got for the weekend. Check, please!