My little corner of the world

Well, we finally did it. We had talked about it for a long time. Michael had been pushing me to do this for ages, but I was always hesitant. Change? CHANGE? I was raised Lutheran, and Lutherans don’t believe in change. :) Why change when what we have is perfectly fine?

Well, OK, so things are not so perfectly fine. Let me explain: I’ve enjoyed a nice long 7-year relationship with my trusty hp pavilion computer. I’ve guided it past the horrors of pre-installed Windows ME (shudder!), one failed hard drive, and the shock of finding out how ridiculously expensive it was to max out the memory (’RDRAM costs HOW much? AND it has to be installed in PAIRS?!’). I think it’s held together well to be a dinosaur of a desktop. Michael has been using it for his photography business for the past couple of years, but it was starting to get really temperamental. The video card had been spazzing for a while and although I’m no hardware expert, it sure was acting like my old Dell when the motherboard started to die.

So, we sucked it up and bought a replacement.

No, not another hp. Not a Dell. Not a Sony. Not even that sweet Alienware ALX machine I’ve been drooling over.

We bought… a Mac.

With the exception of the old Macintosh we used when I was on the high school newspaper staff years ago, Windows is all I’ve ever known. Michael (being a photographer, graphic designer, and general artsy-fartsy type) has worked on Macs for ages. I probably would have agreed to it sooner if I hadn’t picked on my brother-in-law for years for being an ‘applegeek’. You know, ‘turnabout is fair play’ and all that. I grudgingly gave my blessing, to which Michael so graciously replied, ‘Now *I* will get to show *you* how to do stuff on the computer.’ Yeah, you can guess how well that was received.

When I got over the initial non-conforming nerdiness of the whole situation (as if I’m not all dorky enough already), I started to get a wee bit excited about the thing. OK, ok, I admit, I was checking ups.com every hour for tracking updates.

Long story short, the thing is here and I’m having fun playing with all kind of cool stuff. I have officially been bit by the Apple bug. I already am thinking about how long it will take me to save the money to buy a MacBook - as if we really need another computer in this house. But that way we won’t have to share, and Michael can stop complaining about me hogging his new ‘puter. :)