Epic Ditz Moment Over [We Hope]

Well, I should say it's all over but the paying. And the continued uploading, and all that sundry and et cetera. 

I am writing this post on the new computer, which you see here, completely broken in with new greasy fingerprints:

Whose great idea were these matte surfaces, hm? ... which I guess are just as good as the high-gloss ones for the fingerprints, but anyhoo...

So far I am utterly in love with this new laptop. It's little, but not too little. It's just SWEET. Love the screen, love the keyboard, love how light it is.

My faith and satisfaction in HP remains high. The setup with Windows 7 was easy-peasy. My software guys came through like major champs (all for the ridiculously low price of YOU WOULD NOT BELIEVE HOW EXPENSIVE MY STENO SOFTWARE IS. No, really, YOU WOULD NOT BELIEVE.) But everything loaded and restored seamlessly, and I didn't even have any hyperventilation or break into a sweat, and Mr. Jefferies seemed to sense my need to be left alone so I could get this all set up, and he was a champ while I did.

The snow is mostly all melted, and the plum trees are back standing upright, and the nets and cold frame are not crushed. 

Wait.

Clearly something is wrong. Things are just a little bit too perfect here.

But the UPS guy came at like 7:30 p.m. to deliver the new laptop , followed in about 10 minutes by the FedEx guy (man, those guys are working long hours these days) to deliver the sexy new Duet case from Stenograph, which I'm also in love with.  And I'm writing this at about 10:30 p.m., after everything is loaded and set up, and I've even taken photos and loaded them and edited them and everything. 

Photo here of the Duet case, with Yorkie for scale and extra adorableness.

The proof will be in the pudding, but so far I am even more in love with this splendid new case than I am with the splendid new laptop. No longer is it the behemoth that I used to lug around and finally gave up using because it was more trouble than it was worth, so then I lugged around two slightly less behemothish cases. Everything fits very cutely and compactly in this thing, and it's very well thought out.  

Now I just need to get enough work to justify all this. Sigh.

Comments

[Carole]

Clearly, something is about to go wrong.

[gayle]

Did you get the optional blinking red light and proximity alarm? Just so you don't... well, you know...

[Joni]

Windows 7...I am utterlky green with envy. I got stuck with Vista after my notebook collapsed and along with replacing that I decided to get a desktop (I missed having a BIG workhorse..). I have heard nothing but great things about 7. I have had nothing but problems with Vista, including the part where it does not communitcate with other programs. Just awful. Congratulations!

[Kym]

Norma, you give me hope! (Still searching for the Computer of My Dreams while keeping fingers crossed that my existing one hangs on for One More Day!)

[Manise]

Clearly running the old ones over with your car ended up being a good thing- well except for your bank account.

[Sandra]

"stepping away from Norma to avoid the lightning strike heading her way"...
you know you're tempting the fates with all that good news, don't you?

[Tammy]

Now all you need is one of those tall florescent orange flags like people put on bikes for visibility. Or heck, while you're spending, go for the proximity detector on a new vehicle - I know my ex bought new vehicles on flimsier excuses than that!

[Seanna Lea]

I'm glad that your garden at least initially seems to have survived the attack of weather. I'm hoping to plant this weekend, though I guess I should read up on hardening off first (and pick up something other than a random stick shoved into the ground to use for a tomato cage).

[Doris]

Hppy for you...and I WOULD believe how expensive your software is...we have to "lease" ours at MORE THAN YOU WANT TO KNOW per month.

[Alida]

Now first put all your equipment in the car BEFORE you drive off!

[Joannah]

So glad you and yours have survived the freakish-snow-storm of 2010! You have a whole lot of cuteness going on in this post. Good idea to include Mr J as a cuteness-scale!

[margene]

It's beautiful! I hope it brings you good luck and happiness. :-D

[MelissaG]

Those first fingerprints are like scratches on a new car (why I buy used). Ugh!

Isn't the resiliency in the garden amazing? and comforting.

[Sunnyknitter]

New toys! Yay! (At least now that you know it all works together. The moments leading up to that, oy.)

[kmkat]

The economy appears to be healing, given the busy-ness of your UPS and Fed Ex guys. A friend who owns a diner on a local highway told us yesterday that the truck traffic of long-distance semis going past his place is amazing, way way up from a few months or a year ago.

Congrats on the sweet new laptop!

[MsAmpuTeeHee]

It took me three tries to read it correctly. I thought you wrote, "with Yorkie for sale".
I need sleep. Or glasses. Or a new laptop, too!

[Wendy]

The proof is in the pudding? I'm sure you're talking about Yorkie pudding! Usually luring, but drawn out by my gratitude for having no snow in Massachusetts! hope all's well in the garden.....

[Wendy]

Sorry, meant "lurking", nor "luring". Oop.

[elizabeth a airhart]

looking really good really good

[Beth Walsh]

Hey Norma. It is nice to see all of the green grass under the retreating snow, huh? I was talking to a friend who works at Gardeners Supply last night...told her that I had been hearing good things about their products and she said that you should visit their new feature on their website at http://www.gardeners.com/on/demandware.store/Sites-Gardeners-Site/default/Search-PestsDiseases where you can choose all sorts of different definers for garden pests to find out just what kind of pest it is. Thought you might like it. See you at graduation, if not before! :^)