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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Oops, I forgot to address Moth's suggestion of fewer challenges a year - hopefully she'll get notification of this comment too!

I think Dialj will continue along the same lines it's been running. We originally planned on a challenge every month/six weeks or so, but with total flexibility around that, so that we've had weekend challenges, and much longer challenges too. It all depends on how we feel about a particular idea at the time! I'd be reluctant to change that, because there's now another challenge that's just once a year, and it'd also mess with the way we originally started by playing with the "seasonal" challenge idea - though it was never meant to be limited to just special occasions, that was just something to hang our hats on...

Also, I see no reason why there wouldn't be a Christmas-y Dialj next year, at the very least! But as I said above, and to Moth, I was perhaps a bit hasty saying that participation was so very badly down - it wasn't nearly as bad last year as I felt it was the year before, partly due to lovely new people like yourself joining in to replace those who've left us...

I really must get on with those ezines, too... *g*