New Year, new laptop...

[byslantedlight]

I did it - I went out and bought a new laptop today, and the only thing I'm not keen on about it so far (apart from Windows 7 *sighs*) is that the up-down-sideways keys are the teeniest ones on the keyboard, and it's going to take some practice until I stop missing them... Oh, and they always take away programmes that you've just got used to using, too... It's very shiny though, and long (as they mostly seem to be these days), and... and I was a very good girl, and did my research, and bought a Which Laptop Shall I Buy type mag to read over coffee this morning, and then I went around shops and I read and I fiddled and I tapped at keyboards, and I compared specs and compared them with what it'd said in the mag, and... I bought another Sony Vaio. *g* It was in my price range, it had pretty much all the specs I'd wanted, and the keyboard felt good to type on. And the touchpad is in the middle of it. Though the teeny weeny need-to-reach-for-them up-down-sideways keys are a bit of a bugger, I'll grant you... Anyway - I've spent the best part of the day transferring my security and stuff over, and it's beginning to feel a bit more like home now - though I'm still sad for my old Vaio, sleeping the sleep of the cannot-turn-on-any-more...

Now I get to catch up on all the stuff I've fallen hugely behind on - eep! And to wonder about things for 2012, and Pros in 2012, and...oh, stuff, as you do at this time of year. There's lots of Pros-y stuff I should be getting on with - palelyloitering (if I can find a Dreamweaver equivalent to use), and lots of Prosfic I haven't read yet, and wondering whether to carry on with discoveredinalj after the Christmas challenge, and/or my own writings, and/or... oh, you know. Stuff... And there's non-Pros stuff, of course...

...and by the time I've faffed around more with getting things into order on this laptop (have I mentioned the lovely keypad, by the way? *g*), it's time for bed! So here instead of my potential rambling, is the solstice sunset...


And for now, goodnight... until work again tomorrow morning - yuck! I'd much rather stay at home and organise my new laptop... *g*

Oh and I nearly forgot - I liked Sherlock very much, last night, I think they did a great job! Anyone else see it?

Comments

[constant-muse.livejournal.com]

(coming in a bit late here) well done you for getting a new laptop so efficiently and just in the nick of time before going back to work (yuck). apart from the things that niggle, I hope that having the same brand again means it feels familiar in some ways. What do you mean by 'long'? Larger screen?

And wow! 'Sherlock'! I didn't watch S1 but for some reason N decided to watch t'other night, and we all loved it. Granted I'm the only one in the household squeeing over Benedict C as SH, but it's so great in so many ways.
Now I must see S1. It's a little disappointing to discover 'Sherlock' just as they introduce the female love interest (gack). Like moonlightmead I was struck by Watson's 'I'm not gay' as maybe addressing the slash fandom, but it was in a particular context. I'm sure (unless I misheard) that Ms Adler replied, 'But I am.' (but in that case, why was she all pupils dilating etc. over Sherlock?).

[moonlightmead.livejournal.com]

Quite right, she did, and I liked that even more than his comment. If it was true, then I think the point of that was 'he confounds all the normal expectations'.

But of course, given the rest of her actions, there is room to doubt her word!

[constant-muse.livejournal.com]

I think the point of that was 'he confounds all the normal expectations'. Like the slash fic trope 'only gay for him', but in reverse? *g*

[moonlightmead.livejournal.com]

Hee, that escaped me completely, but yeah, I suppose so!

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Replying somewhat late too - have had stupid work and stupid face-ache today, just when I wanted to be free to play. But I did play with discoveredinalj this morning and realised that things weren't as dire as I'd been worrying, so I'm going to shut up about that and get on with planning the next challenge... *g*

And yeay that you saw Sherlock! Isn't it ace! *g* Don't worry about any female love interest - she's gone and won't be back, and she's the only one that existed in the books, and that was pretty much as deep as it got, so... *g* Irene Adler was definitely gay, though she clearly worked with men too - there were lots of hints that she preferred her female clients, I thought. I figured she was bi, and enjoyed whoever caught her attention at the time...

In S1 they played quite heavily on a gay subtext between Holmes and Watson, building it up quite gently I thought, and now they seem to be making it quite the running gag, if this ep was anything to go by. I'll be interested to see how the next two stories bear that out, especially after Cumberbatch's comments in The Telegraph!

Oh, and yes - my new laptop has a wider but narrower screen, which I've never really been keen on. Even my telly isn't widescreen, though that'll have to change one of these days too (and it's partly cos it's an old one, rather than anything else - it's not a flatscreen either!) On the bright side, it's occurred to me that of course if I keep the number lock off, the numberpad functions as arrowkeys, which is much handier for general use! *g*