As God is my witness, I will never buy a PC again.
At least, not
unless there's a really, really good reason. ("Free" would
work.)
After an insanely expensive weekend, I am writing this from my
brand new pretty iMac on my nearly new monster table (um, "monster" because it's
reallyreallybig, not because it's ugly), in the living room that someday, after
the addition of more bookshelves and the arrival of one of the chairs we *also*
bought this weekend (I said it was insanely expensive) will be my new library.
I had forgotten what it's like to have almost everything work right
the first time. Even hooking up the wireless network so both the new Mac and the
old PC can be online worked the first time. Incredible. I did have a wee bit of
trouble getting my mail to send (though it received fine) bt the friendly dude at
Apple was most helpful. Not effective, since he couldn't figure out the problem
and it spontaneously fixed itself, but helpful.
On the down side, it
look like we're postponing our more-or-less annual Mardi Gras party a few weeks.
Neither of us had the energy to do all the prep work this weekend. We'll probably
just have it in a few weeks and call it Mardi Gras anyway, on the theory that we
're far enough from New Orleans that no one knows when it's supposed to be anyhow.
But we did have a very nice Valentines Day weekend, complete with holiday-
appropriate activities. Also chocolates.