Well, dear readers, I am now typing notes for the first time on my brand spanking new Powerbook. We had quite a day setting it up, but it’s all working splendidly now, although Mr. Mac Man has to come back and show me a few things. Meanwhile, I’m nosing around and checking things out. Mr. Mac Man wasn’t able to link the two computers together, which would have made things very easy. It seems the Dell, knowing I was deevorcing it, decided to muck up its CD Rom drive, which wouldn’t work, which meant we couldn’t download the software that would have enabled us to link the computers. So, he had to take everything off the Dell and put in on zip discs, and then load it onto the Powerbook. It all worked fine, but it was time consuming. We then couldn’t get AOL to work properly – we loaded it several times, but it wouldn’t port over my address book and my favorites. We finally had to call AOL and we got an actual American on the phone, and an actual person who actually knew what he was talking about, and everything got sorted out in about fifteen minutes. By that time, it was after six, and Mr. Mac Man had to leave. Before he left, however, he talked me through the basics of iPhoto and iTunes, both of which I’ve been using pretty handily. I don’t know the more difficult ins and outs, but I’ll learn them when he comes back. It’s quite a lot of fun, this iPhoto and iTunes and I’m getting the hang of it. iTunes is amazing – I imported a CD (it does this so easily), named the tracks (commercially released CDs tracks are already named and the iTunes recognizes them when you import the CD), put them in album order and then burned a CD. Once the CD was burned (which took all of about four minutes), I then clicked on “print” and it printed me out an inlay card of the tracks. I can see I’ll be using iTunes a lot. I posted photos on the site, after resizing them, and that was easy, too. I’ve opened all my Word documents and got them to all look like they should, and I’ve opened other programs and they all work well. The only thing I have to get used to is AOL – it looks completely different on a Mac, and not nearly as pretty. The e-mail works a bit differently, and I guess I’m just completely used to it the other way. I’ll get used to this. I also have to get used to the built-in Safari browser – I haven’t figured out how to make it big enough. Mr. Mac Man said not even to bother with IE on the Mac – IE, apparently, is on the way out. My new printer/scanner arrived and that is set up, as is my new wireless port. Yes, Virginia, I can now roam about my house, laptop in hand, and access the Internet from any room, or even outside on the patio. I love that. I can use it on battery power, or simply unplug the main plug and plug it in elsewhere. I may buy a spare plug so that I have an extra with which to travel. Isn’t that exciting? Isn’t that just too too?
My goodness, that was quite a long paragraph about a Powerbook, wasn’t it? I fell asleep three times whilst wriging it. Has anyone noticed that I just typed “wriging” when I meant to type “writing”? I mean, really, you can’t fall asleep when you are wriging. At least I’ve never fallen asleep whilst wriging. Well, why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button and let’s wrig whilst doing it.
Did you all wrig? I did. It was lovely. One simply cannot wrig enough, that is the way I look at it. You know, I look at it all the time and yet it never looks at me. Damn them, damn them all to hell.
So far, I do not miss my Dell one or even two whits. It’s sitting on the floor like so much fish, with its stupid broken CD Rom drive. My old printer is sitting next to it. If anyone needs a printer cheap, let me know. It’s quite a nice printer and will come with extra ink cartridges. For those who must know details, it’s a Hewlitt-Packard Deskjet 932C, and will work with a PC or Mac.
This machine is so sleek, with abs and buns of steel. I shall now endeavor to look as sleek as this machine. I, too, will be a sleek machine and I will be ogled and admired by all. People will cast sensual glances in my direction, which is north by northwest (the way madness lies). Excuse me for a moment.
Sorry, I just had to wrig again. I’d forgotten just how much I love wriging. But one can’t just wrig because one must import about 10,000 songs into one’s iTunes library, mustn’t one.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must play on the Powerbook, I must write on the Powerbook, I must do some errands and then I must wrig, oh, yes, I must wrig. Today’s topic of discussion: It’s Ask BK Day – the first Ask BK Day of the New Year and the day in which you get to ask me or any dear reader any old thing you like and we call get to answer any old thing we like. So, let’s have loads of lovely questions and loads of lovely posts, as merrily we wrig along.