Corrections and Admissions

Yeah, I meant to make a correction the other day.  I know it's "conficker", not "conflicker".

OK, that's out of the way, and I feel slightly less dense...

And I hope no one took grand offense at my going off on the mild rant last entry.  I'm not even sure what caused it.  Though maybe I was simply anticipating, as today I did run across some real charmers on YouTube.  Fine examples of "the binary thought matrix" types.  (You know, "Everything SUCKS except what I like...")  In all honestly, I'm a live-and-let-live type.  Use what you feel most comfortable with.  Just don't try to ram your views down my throat as holy writ.  I might get testy...

This evening I'm trying to get myself psyched to get back out on the road for the second week of my new work adventure.  It's kind of...well, hard.  I'm not working with my old crew anymore, and I'm having to adapt to new requirements.  My old group was known for their hardcore, cover-all-the-bases style of doing our line of work.  This new group is...well, it's different.  And I'm having to get used to that.  Among other things...  It ain't easy for an old dog like me...

And now to the admission.  I'm one of those people who, when they get a little down, gets a bit too materialistic for their own good.  (I'm sure no one has noticed that.  They certainly wouldn't if they walked into my house and saw the stacks of old computers...)

Well...

I've always said that there were only two Dell laptop models that I would ever want, and I have one of those.  (The XPS M1530.)

Well...

I now have the other one...

I was moping about on YouTube, got bored, and bounced over to the 'bay.  Did a search, and the little devil sitting on my shoulder started doing the Happy Dance...

There was a functional Dell XPS M2010.  For a decent (by XPS M2010 standards) price.  Granted, it's a bit of a fixer-upper.  But the features were tolerable.  It has everything it needs to make it usable for right now...

Yeah, long story short, I bought it...  I couldn't really afford it.  But...

Oh hell...

I need to go pack...  The Macbook, my "James Bond" Vaio, a stack of Puppy Linux CDs...  I might actually drag out my old Nook which has a ton of books on it...

I think I need to get some sleep...........