it's here...
It's here, and it's lovely. It is a pretty laptop. (I didn't realize it would be.) It's more or less the same size as the one I'm using, but it weighs less. Now it is gulping down antivirus and Windows updates, and I'm trying to ignore it so that I can get more chapters read. Evidently I need to make some recovery disks, as it came with . . . nothing. I am not used to this unhappy new world where you get zero OEM discs.
Yesterday I hopped off to rebuy Stedman's medical checker. I'd stopped upgrading it after they told me last time that I'd waited too long to qualify for their upgrade price (Stedman's = NOT CHEAP x grr grr). But now it's been a considerable amount of time, and I've been noticing a steady uptick in the number of terms I'm having to look up -- so rebuy time it is. Sigh.
I couldn't get their online order form to work properly, so I gave up and called the publisher's number instead. I am so happy that their website let me down. She pulled up my customer records and asked me if I had my discount coupon number handy -- and I told her I didn't have one. Whereupon she informed me that I ought to have one and gave me the discount on the spot. $25 dollars off! Holy cow. I am SO GLAD that I called.
While I was at it, I looked up OEM Word 2007 and/or 2010. The reviews of these aren't good, with lots of complaining about the new user interface. Plus .docx, which already has been a minor bane of my existence. I don't want to upgrade Word, even though I'd really like to have that nicer equation editor that's in it. Sigh. I also looked at upgrading my Acrobat Pro, but ... it's just too expensive. It really is. I can't see spending so much on a program unless it was something I'd be using all day, every day (which I don't). So that's that. :P
In the meantime, I was offered another book overlapping the one I'm desperately reading right now, I have a small pile of medical articles to get through before Monday (though I asked for -- and received -- a deadline delay on those if needed), several TWC articles to read before Monday (there had been more, but I asked them to give them to someone else), and the sociology professor suddenly popped up to ask if I'd like to do some of his stuff as well (which I really would, 'cause he's cool). And at some point I have to get started on my taxes.
I ... don't even know what I'm doing. Maybe I should turn down this next book and concentrate on getting moved to the new machine. Or maybe I can do both at the same time. Or not. I don't know. I have to decide before tomorrow morning. Yikes.
(Aside to La Q: I found a small cardboard box outside under my mailbox, getting rather damp. Guess what?!? I will tell you about it when I see you . . .)
eta: No new book for me. Had to turn it down. T_T
Yesterday I hopped off to rebuy Stedman's medical checker. I'd stopped upgrading it after they told me last time that I'd waited too long to qualify for their upgrade price (Stedman's = NOT CHEAP x grr grr). But now it's been a considerable amount of time, and I've been noticing a steady uptick in the number of terms I'm having to look up -- so rebuy time it is. Sigh.
I couldn't get their online order form to work properly, so I gave up and called the publisher's number instead. I am so happy that their website let me down. She pulled up my customer records and asked me if I had my discount coupon number handy -- and I told her I didn't have one. Whereupon she informed me that I ought to have one and gave me the discount on the spot. $25 dollars off! Holy cow. I am SO GLAD that I called.
While I was at it, I looked up OEM Word 2007 and/or 2010. The reviews of these aren't good, with lots of complaining about the new user interface. Plus .docx, which already has been a minor bane of my existence. I don't want to upgrade Word, even though I'd really like to have that nicer equation editor that's in it. Sigh. I also looked at upgrading my Acrobat Pro, but ... it's just too expensive. It really is. I can't see spending so much on a program unless it was something I'd be using all day, every day (which I don't). So that's that. :P
In the meantime, I was offered another book overlapping the one I'm desperately reading right now, I have a small pile of medical articles to get through before Monday (though I asked for -- and received -- a deadline delay on those if needed), several TWC articles to read before Monday (there had been more, but I asked them to give them to someone else), and the sociology professor suddenly popped up to ask if I'd like to do some of his stuff as well (which I really would, 'cause he's cool). And at some point I have to get started on my taxes.
I ... don't even know what I'm doing. Maybe I should turn down this next book and concentrate on getting moved to the new machine. Or maybe I can do both at the same time. Or not. I don't know. I have to decide before tomorrow morning. Yikes.
(Aside to La Q: I found a small cardboard box outside under my mailbox, getting rather damp. Guess what?!? I will tell you about it when I see you . . .)
eta: No new book for me. Had to turn it down. T_T