Discopants and Haircuts

I am sitting here in the living room of our apartment. It’s about 6 in the evening and Natalie is at her grandmothers. Amanda just woke up. Both kids have been seriously ill this week. Scary sick. It’s been my first real experience with a scary illness with the kids. Both have a ‘false’ strep throat. They’re all congested in their lungs and look like they are really suffering from it. Natalie got it first and is past the tough part. Amanda, only 5 months, is beginning to look a lot better.

 I got a Windows laptop from the school  am working at. I asked for it so I could get comfortable with the Windows operating system. So far, I really hate it. I have been a Mac user since the first one was made. I have used Windows from time-to-time but basically to surf or write something in Word. This thing is a pain in the ass. I spend more time checking and rechecking, scanning and rescanning.. searching and researching. What anyone sees in these machines is beyond me. My Mac just works.

 I have a Mac that is 8 years old. Deb’s using it right now to listen to music and look for apartments. It’s running the latest version of Mac OSX. It’s also providing me with a wireless bridge so I can post this entry and surf the web. 8 years old! How many Pc users are still using their 8 year old computer for everyday use? I have never had a problem with the damn thing..

Sure this a geeky post. Please forgive. 

But then you hear the argument that Pc’s are cheaper. How? They need to be thrown out after a few years unless you know what you are doing and can get some other use out of it. And then I read that the new Winows Operating System, Vista, will require 1 gig of ram for good performance.

Insanity I tell you..