I am blogging to you tonight from my brand new PC, and wow is it roomy in here!

That’s because I am seeing everything at almost twice the resolution as I was on the old computer. That makes my little words look kind of lost in all this screen space. I am going to have to figure out how to fiddle with the settings in the browser and the control panel in order to make the test bigger, because I am having trouble reading what I type!

Man getting older sucks.

Obviously, I was able to get the necessary cable today. Turns out, I did drop it at the store, and they had it there waiting for me, so I didn’t have to buy a second one. That was a big relief and made me feel less stupid (and hence less depressed) about the whole thing.

I was fairly depressed earlier. I think it was a loss of motivation. But I managed to do the things I needed to in order to feel better, and that is all the motivation you need.

Went with J&J to Costco today. I was hoping they would have the cable I needed there, and therefore would not need to go to NCIX. But they didn’t. The area that used to have all kinds of computery type stuff is now nothing but endless models of big screen TV (including the new curved ones… I must admit, those looked good), with a smaller section of smartphones and tablets and such.

It’s very weird to me that they stock all that without stocking any of the accessories. I mean sure, the margin on accessories is lower, but you would still be better off having someone buy a TV AND the cables to hook them to their TV than just selling the TV and having the person who buys it go put the money for the cables into someone else’s pocket.

I can think like a businessman when I need to do so.

Seeing as this is a brand new computer, it’s running Windows 10, and the expected culture shock of going from XP to Windows 10 has mostly failed to appear. Everything works more or less the same. There’s a few little differences, but for the most part, for someone like me who doesn’t do much with his computer besides use the web browser, it’s the same thing.

I am not being forced to learn to use active tiles or some such.

It amuses me, though, that they have added what they call Task View, which looks exactly like the program-switching screen from the Macs I used last semester in Creative Writing class. What’s next, having program icons jump up and down like happy toddlers when I click on them?

Because those are adorable.

Now that things are up and running, I feel a lot better. I am back to being perkily optimistic (ish) about the future. I still face the rather large task of getting my files transferred from the old computer to the new (or the shorter but trickier task of getting someone to install my old HD into the new computer) before I can fully settle into my new computer space. but the big obstacles have been overcome and from now on, things are gonna be groovy.

Not much else has gone down today. Last night I ordered some Pizza (the) Hut(t). An order of cheesy breadsticks, a rectangle of Italian Sausage and Pineapple Panormous Pizza, and for dessert, Cinaparts.

I always forget that I don’t really like Cinnaparts. They seem good in theory and I always think it will be like a Cinnabon, but no, it’s more like the top third of an apple pie with icing on it. It’s not bad tasting or anything, it’s just not really my kind of thing.

And to think, I could have had a giant chocolate chip cookie that serves 8 instead. Oh well, next time.

Normally, I don’t order out until Saturday night, but I needed it a lot more last night. Needed to do something that made me feel confident and capable and competent. And good, of course. That’s why I went with a dessert instead of the other option, which would have been boneless chicken bites.

I am trying to find the proper role for the sweet stuff in my life, and I think the occasional (and I mean that) consolation when I am feeling down is OK as long as it doesn’t become an every day thing.

As it was, it ended up being enough pizza n’ stuff for like, three meals, so it was money well spent. I don’t get three meals’ worth when I order from KFC. So maybe I will Pizza Hut more in the future.

I have downloaded Steam to this computer. For those who don’t know, it’s the world’s biggest platform for buying and downloading games for the PC. You buy it on Steam and play it on Steam, and it works great. There are plenty of old games on there for free or quite cheap, which is good, because I have a lot of catching up to do.

I will probably continue playing games on my tablet, though. Both platforms have their strengths and weaknesses. I am obviously going to be playing A-list games on my shiny new PC. But for laying in bed and messing around, nothing beats tablet games.

Oh, speaking of my new PC, I am loving how SMALL it is. It’s a quarter the size of my old PC. And it’s almost completely silent. All I hear 90 percent of the time is the very soft whirring of the cooling fan. The other components are silent. Once I completely switch over to this PC, that’s going to be strange. I am so used to hearing my HD access.

This truly is the future.

All in all, it’s been a great day (after a certain point) and I am even catching up on my Linguistics.

Ain’t life grand sometimes?

I will talk to you nice people again tomorrow.