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

[moonlightmead.livejournal.com]

God, I am starting to think that I am the kiss of death to things. Things look so cool, and I arrive, and they die. Wail. I had better not go near the Big Bang! Nor a handy local council service - the building housing it will probably fall down at this rate.

There were definitely things that I didn't understand about the comm when I joined LJ, and things that made me nervous about posting, and I think that is because I was new to everything: LJ, Pros, and active participation (rather than just reading). I don't think that's common. I think most people have experience of at least one of those before finding the thing.

I also had totally forgotten the detail of the end of Sherlock. I think it was simply the realisation that that pool scene took ten minutes (well, that scene and the dead man in the car together). That's a long time for such a bathetic resolution. I think I'd have lost interest. I know a friend did genuinely just get bored and give up at about the stage I tuned in - so just in time to miss Irene Adler's 'battle-dress' (or whatever she called it), whoops.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Lol - do you mean you've kissed Dialj to death? Nah... Though if you do go near the Big Bang I hope it won't stop you writing other things as well!

I'm actually about to take back my Dialj comments below, cos having gone through and done the tagging and sorted the User Info page for last year, there was alot more fic posted than I remembered, though from fewer challenges. It was the year before that was particularly quiet... So really it's just me, probably feeling bad that I didn't write much myself, and projecting... *g*

I didn't time the pool scene, but it kept me watching, so... *g* I'm amused to hear that the Daily Fail has apparently already been on about complaints over the nudity in Sherlock - which I thought was brief, tasteful to the point of non-existence, and sadly all female...