A New Laptop At Last!
I finally bought a new laptop! I think I’m really going to like it. I’d better – it was pretty expensive. My last one came to about $500 but this one comes to about $899, and that’s the sale price.
I know it’s a lot of money for a computer, but I really think this will be good for me considering my pain and fatigue issues – it has a touch screen and the screen can be flipped all the way around, so I can position it like an easel or fold it all the way back to use it as a tablet. I think that will be good for my achy, miserable times when I need to spend a couple days in bed with Pinterest, looking at awesome craft projects and cute animals to help me cope.
Anyways, I don’t mean to brag, but this is the best thing that’s happened to me in a long time. After the appointment I had yesterday with my pain doctor I need this. And it’s been awful being in this condition without a computer of my own. Not only does a laptop with internet access allow me to occupy myself when I’m incapacitated, but it’s my connection to the outside world. I can keep up with people here on Daily Strength more regularly, for example, expressing my worries and fears while comforting others who do the same for me.
Now I just need to replace the battery on my Smartphone. I know I won’t need the phone as much now that I have a computer of my own but it will be inconvenient, not to mention less safe, to leave the house without a working phone. It also functioned as my alarm clock, camera, video camera, and several other things.
It’s funny: I always hated technology as a kid. Computers hated me so I hated them back. When I wrote my stories I used an old typewriter, I think an Underwood from the ‘30s. When my grade 6 teachers told us our reports had to be typed, they were shocked when I asked if I could use a typewriter – of course they understood when I told them my home computer was a Commodore 64. When we finally got an IBM I did really like writing my stories on it and searching the web, but at school I would have trouble on the library computers. I remember my friend Ivana and I being allowed to use the classroom computer and rather than compromise and search for something we both agreed to, she obnoxiously demanded we look up The Backstreet Boys – the loves of her life and the sorrow of mine. As luck would have it, the computer froze before we could do anything. Perhaps being hated by technology can sometimes pay off. Although, maybe that computer liked me, or simply hated her...?
I know it’s a lot of money for a computer, but I really think this will be good for me considering my pain and fatigue issues – it has a touch screen and the screen can be flipped all the way around, so I can position it like an easel or fold it all the way back to use it as a tablet. I think that will be good for my achy, miserable times when I need to spend a couple days in bed with Pinterest, looking at awesome craft projects and cute animals to help me cope.
Anyways, I don’t mean to brag, but this is the best thing that’s happened to me in a long time. After the appointment I had yesterday with my pain doctor I need this. And it’s been awful being in this condition without a computer of my own. Not only does a laptop with internet access allow me to occupy myself when I’m incapacitated, but it’s my connection to the outside world. I can keep up with people here on Daily Strength more regularly, for example, expressing my worries and fears while comforting others who do the same for me.
Now I just need to replace the battery on my Smartphone. I know I won’t need the phone as much now that I have a computer of my own but it will be inconvenient, not to mention less safe, to leave the house without a working phone. It also functioned as my alarm clock, camera, video camera, and several other things.
It’s funny: I always hated technology as a kid. Computers hated me so I hated them back. When I wrote my stories I used an old typewriter, I think an Underwood from the ‘30s. When my grade 6 teachers told us our reports had to be typed, they were shocked when I asked if I could use a typewriter – of course they understood when I told them my home computer was a Commodore 64. When we finally got an IBM I did really like writing my stories on it and searching the web, but at school I would have trouble on the library computers. I remember my friend Ivana and I being allowed to use the classroom computer and rather than compromise and search for something we both agreed to, she obnoxiously demanded we look up The Backstreet Boys – the loves of her life and the sorrow of mine. As luck would have it, the computer froze before we could do anything. Perhaps being hated by technology can sometimes pay off. Although, maybe that computer liked me, or simply hated her...?
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Congratulations! :)