New Computer! New Writing Machine!

On Wednesday night Ian, who is bad at keeping secrets, woke me up at 2 am.  “Tanya,” he whispered, “I got you a present.”

“What did you get me?” I mumbled in that half-awake, move-your-lips-as-little-as-possible way.

“I got you a new computer.”

“What?” I exclaimed, now fully awake.

“I decided you needed a new, not hand-me-down computer.  It’s an early graduation present.”

!!!

The needing a new computer part is true.  Right now I operate on two different but equally dysfunctional computers – a little Toshiba laptop that is over six years old and sounds like an airplane taking off when it boots up or has trouble with an operation, and a Mac Mini that’s, well, mini.  It keeps telling me that sites like Facebook and Google don’t exist, and it stalls intermittently when I open too many programs at once.  I mostly only use my computers for the Internet and writing, so it’s been okay so far, but the technology is on its last legs.

I am so excited to get a new blank slate for my writing projects.  Now I’ll have some better organization with my stories (no more projects from college!), plus the computer has a built-in camera.  Yay!  I can do web cam stuff and take Photobooth pictures.  Let’s face it, every time I go into an Apple store, I make Ian get in a photo with me.  We have photos of us on Mac computers all across SoCal.  Even though the camera is a novelty and not a necessity, it makes me happy.

Check her out here.  Isn’t she pretty?

I shall call her Writing Machine and she shall be my writing machine.  What a good husband I have.

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