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Aug. 25th, 2006 10:21 pmSo we went to Comet last night and spent... well, a tad less than M spent on his first PC (great for Lemmings, Windows incapable). The laptop's "mine", except when Looby Loo plays with it and when M borrows it for band purposes. Still, I've got to set it up (download Opera, Firefox, AVG; remove shortcuts to IE, excise Notron...). Haven't put FrameMaker on it yet and I need a text editor (suggestions? I'm an UltraEdit person usually) and Writerly is standing in for an LJ client.
As well as the laptop, we got a new desktop: M's except when LL and I get to use it. He gets to set that up. LL then gets a non-Internet PC of sufficient vintage that all her educational software will run on it. Also cute rechargeable wireless mice (2 for one offer).
All this has entailed a day of tidying. It took two hours this morning to discover my desk. The remainder of the day was spent encouraging, cajoling, bullying et al the small person into helping tidy her room. Floor is now visible, desk less so. I'd dearly have loved to have simply sat her in front of the TV and done it myself: there's a good feeling to shifting that much chaos. But she's got to learn that "put it away" does not mean "leave it on your bedroom floor". Not a good day for mother daughter relations.
But... here I am typing away with "The Lost Boys" playing in the background. OK, the technology's fine but I have foul taste in movies.
And can I just say that I still hate XP, more than I hated Win98.
As well as the laptop, we got a new desktop: M's except when LL and I get to use it. He gets to set that up. LL then gets a non-Internet PC of sufficient vintage that all her educational software will run on it. Also cute rechargeable wireless mice (2 for one offer).
All this has entailed a day of tidying. It took two hours this morning to discover my desk. The remainder of the day was spent encouraging, cajoling, bullying et al the small person into helping tidy her room. Floor is now visible, desk less so. I'd dearly have loved to have simply sat her in front of the TV and done it myself: there's a good feeling to shifting that much chaos. But she's got to learn that "put it away" does not mean "leave it on your bedroom floor". Not a good day for mother daughter relations.
But... here I am typing away with "The Lost Boys" playing in the background. OK, the technology's fine but I have foul taste in movies.
And can I just say that I still hate XP, more than I hated Win98.
