Shiny new blog post.
written by Julie R. Neidlinger 8 comments link this postIs this blog post extra shiny and new-looking to you? Does it glitter and glow with modern up-to-datedness? Does it holler "4GB RAM!!!"?
It should.
I'm writing it on my new laptop.
I'd been using my mom's little Dell laptop these months away from home, but I can't do that permanently. She very much likes her laptop and really does need it. I decided to not rip my desktop system out of the home network and drag it down here to Bismarck where I will be living, so a laptop was logical. Plus, since I probably won't be able to afford internet, and since I will be living super-close to the library I practically live at now, anyway, a laptop would be key in getting online from their free wifi connection.
At Best Buy, where the guy helping me was, oddly, a former UND aerospace graduate and air traffic controller for three years ("I hated it," he said. "I really hated it."), a sale on laptops abounded. And so I found this fine HP laptop which will work well with my 750 GB external hard drive at home. With the small scanner I purchased earlier and the extra printer we have at home that no one is using, I should be good to go with my computer and design work in my new digs.
This new laptop is something. It's very shiny. I guess shiny is the new thing.
It hurts my eyes.
Labels: my life, summer 2008, technology
Copyright (c) Julie R. Neidlinger 10/01/2008 06:17:00 PM
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8 Comments:
So, would this fall in the category of "manna"?
By 
Rey, at
1/10/08 19:04
This would fall in the category of "forgetfulness."
As in, I got a look at my credit report when I was getting the apartment and I realized I had a small savings account and it amazed me that I was amazed since I'd been subtracting the wee bit of money each month for a while, now, but never made the connection that the account existed. So, no, it wouldn't be manna, since it was saved to the next day.
Savings accounts blow the manna analogy out of the water.
I am the perfect investor/saver: I am forgetful. I put it in, and forget about it.
By Julie R. Neidlinger, at
1/10/08 19:25
My new laptop is one I did not want to buy, and it's not nearly as cool as yours, but it is an HP.
So what model is it? Hope it works well for you.
By 
jvjannotti, at
1/10/08 19:55
Model?
Hmmm...
HP Pavilion Entertainment PC?
By Julie R. Neidlinger, at
1/10/08 21:49
Vista?
By Sarah Regan Snavely, at
2/10/08 12:39
Si. Vista.
But we have Vista on a computer at home, so it wasn't a huge shock. Not that it would have been.
By Julie R. Neidlinger, at
2/10/08 18:01
All this time you were secretly wealthy and I've been putting on fund raisers for you and now I think you should return that money!
Starving artist, indeed!
By Anna, at
5/10/08 14:26
Yes. "Wealthy" and "starving."
Two adjectives that no one would ever use to describe me. Ever.
By Julie R. Neidlinger, at
5/10/08 14:37
