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?

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[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Oh I love Gimp, and that's on my list to re-download! I can straighten pics through it too, but like Photoshop it's a monster to start up each time, and Picasa was so much quicker. I may just download Picasa myself, as I see that it is actually free - even though I don't use it for anything except the straightening! *g*

Dialj - I might have to take back what I was saying about it, to some extent. It has been affected by the other challenges etc, no doubt about it, but having finally gone through and tagged and sorted out the User Page index for 2011, there was alot more participation than I was remembering - just fewer challenges! So it may just have been my general malaise over last year making me think sadly about it... *g*

That said, if you'd like to help out, that'd be fab - its so much more fun to work with other people with the challenges, and I really miss Josey at Dialj (quite apart from anywhere else!) We'd chat and work out the challenges together, and then she'd do gorgeous visuals, and I'd do the words-y bit, usually... Of course it helped that we thought similarly about alot of things (including wanting it all to be right!), and that she was a gorgeous genius... *g*

I'm thinking about what the next challenge could be right now (yes, at the same time as wondering whether I should do one at all *g*) if you want to drop me a line... *g*

And thank you for your kind words - Pros is a fun place to be, isn't it! I've made some lovely friends here, and its completely spilled into my "real life" - I now have very high expectations of a fandom! *g*

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Will email soon - not today because I have to get ready for a hospital appointment and then we are having visitors. But I won't forget!