Oh boy! Today my friend gave me a little gray Apple iMAC! It’s like a brand new machine, but a lot slower than I am used to with my PC. No matter. How cute! It is a little chubbier than I thought, but many of us are. ;) Oh, I know, many of you might say why would I want one of those? Well, I do have a nice PC that my son put together for me, with a thin, slim monitor, but on occasion the CPU needs to “go for a car ride” to Cincinnati. Seriously, it goes to visit my son and then it is magically fine again. I have done without a computer for a year at a time though, not something I like doing without, especially since I am pretty much stuck in the house most of the time. I have some very thoughtful friends, who are quite aware of the many frustrations in my life. They are sweethearts though.
Mostly there are times when the beau is using it (playing games on line, grrr) that I get tired of waiting for the games to be over 6 hours later when I was in the middle of something; and then it is very late at night and I can’t work on stuff then. It isn’t that easy to just pick up where I left off, not with this brain. So maybe we can switch computers sometimes. His is not working, and if it got fixed there may not be a problem, who knows. I want to network them at some point. I can’t use the iMac for all my stuff because I have a lot of photo files in the PC, but the iMac gives me an option for simple things and another connection as soon as I get the right router. I have a Mac sitting in storage that has been locked up a couple o years. I would like to fix it someday because of the children’s book files in it. Of course the little iMac has no way to use my old floppies either, but maybe I can do something about that in the future. For now I have to find a safe place for it to hang out, rather than just having it sit in the living room chaise.
It’s nice to have a mac and mouse in the house.
