The Death of a Computer

I'd never have thought I would have become so attached to a computer. But I did. I know it inside and out. I know what every single whir means, and where I have to hit it to get it going again when it gets stuck. I guess when you know something well, and you've put time and energy into it, it's easy to become attached. Just like people, and relationships, and beliefs.

I've limped along with my "good ol' boy" for many years and it finally gave up the ghost. So I'm forced to make a change. Not that all change is bad, mind you. But all change IS an adjustment.

So now I have this shiny new computer. And it's just not the same, I tell you. Just not the same. Oh, yes... It does a million miles an hour when it comes to browsing speed and I have enough RAM on it to have ALL my programs open and going all at the same time, if I wanted to.

But it just doesn't have the same character as the old one. None of the same shimmeys, no whirs, and definately no clunks. I don't miss the clunks, I must admit. But the whirs and the shimmeys... Just how am I even supposed to know a computer is even ON without whirs and shimmeys! I'm excited about the new at the same time as I am grieving the loss of the old and familiar.

So I'm transferring everything over. It's going to take a bit of time, I can see. But I thought I'd break in the new fella by making my first post in more than a week to my blog. I'm hoping that soon, when I get everything transferred over, I can finally get some of those wonderful desert pictures up. I'd sure like that.

But the "extras" will have to wait until the mandatories are done. Changing everything over to the new computer is a mandatory.

I've never changed computers before, and I haven't a clue as to how to begin. I don't have techie buds I can ask so I'm pretty much on my own. Does it take special cables, software programs... or what?