Well, dear readers, we are inching ever closer to a brand spanking New Year. But before we get to said brand spanking New Year, we first will be getting to our annual Rockin’ New Year’s Eve celebration, and what fun we’re all going to have. There will be merriment and mirth and laughter and legs, and there will be a bit of the bubbly (Diet Coke, that is), and there will be dancing and romancing and prancing and the whole darn thing will be entrancing. So, be there or be round. Today is the day, dear readers. Yes, Virginia, today is the day I will most likely be purchasing an Apple Powerbook. I have done the research, I have spoken to people, I have heard both sides vis a vis PC vs. Mac, and I just think this is going to be the right decision. The only cons that people were warning me about, was the switch-over factor – because I’ve always used a PC and that is what I’m used to, that picking up on a Mac will be confusing and strange. But, I finally realized that the fact of the matter is that I’m not used to a PC. I know nothing about a PC. All I do on my computer is open Word documents and go on the Internet. I don’t run programs, I don’t use Excel or calendars, I have not done one single thing on this computer ever except write and be on the Internet. So, I really don’t have to unlearn anything. And I’ve used a Mac and I really think I’m going to enjoy certain things about it – iTunes, and iMovie, and Word should look and act the same, I’m told, and certainly the Internet will look and act the same. What I’m really going to love is the wireless aspect of this new Powerbook, and the thinness of it and the lightness of it, not to mention the backlit keyboard of it. It comes with a free printer, which will also be wireless, so I don’t have to clutter up my kitchen table with all this stuff and all these wires – the mouse will be wireless, the printer will now reside in my book room, and I’ll be able to pick the computer up and work in my bedroom if I feel like it, or the book room, or the den. I shall no longer be tied to my kitchen table and I love that. I can even work outside, should this rain ever abate. I shall keep you all posted through the day about the progress of my ordering The Big Mac. Perhaps I’ll order a side of fries with it. Isn’t that exciting? Isn’t that just too too?
It was quite rainy yesterday, so I only left the home environment once, to go to my mail place. Otherwise, I stayed in and dealt with a few things that needed dealing with, and did my Big Apple research. I finished another Edgar Wallace movie, which was almost my favorite of all that I’ve seen thus far. The one I’m watching now actually isn’t an Edgar Wallace movie, but I guess they included it in the Edgar Wallace box set because it’s directed by the guy who did most of the Wallace films, and features most of the cast members – it, too, is a krimi, but based on a novel by James Hadley Chase, who wrote No Orchids for Miss Blandish.
Well, why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below because I’ve got a Big Mac to order.
Of course, I shall keep my Dell as a backup, but I’m now looking forward to this new Big Mac contraption. Mr. Mac Man will be coming over early next week, as soon as the contraption arrives, and he will be transferring all my computer stuff onto the Big Mac, and configuring it to do all the things I like. He’ll then talk me through the basic stuff, and the one nice thing about Big Macs is that they’re user friendly and “logical”. He’ll make sure my Word documents look exactly the same – I can’t deal with change on that particular front and he says there will be no problem.
Tonight, the Pogues are coming over. During last week’s Christmas Eve Do, the lovely Julieanne noticed that I had a home-grown DVD of Mr. Stephen Sondheim and Mr. James Goldman’s Evening Primrose, which I don’t think she’s ever seen. So, tonight they are bringing supper over and we are going to screen it (and some other interesting short subject surprises).
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must order an Apple, I must arrange for it to be shipped, and I must order certain extras that I shall need. I must also do some organizing around these here parts, so that when the New Year arrives I will be ready to start right in, writing merrily away on the new Big Mac with fries Powerbook G4. Today’s topic of discussion: It’s Ask BK Day – the day in which you get to ask me or any dear reader any old question you like, and we get to give any old answer we like. Since this is our last Ask BK Day of 2004, let’s have loads of lovely questions and loads of lovely postings.