Days in Limbo, and the Continuation of the Computer Saga

[debka_notion]

Dancing was quieter than usual- just not a big turn-out this week. It felt very strange, and not entirely real, to be telling people that this was the last week I'd be there on a regular basis. Amusingly, I finally got the email of someone I've known for oh, at least 8 years now (admittedly, for most of that time we interacted sort of awkwardly). And the couple of folks who head down to NYC to dance around once a month have promised to get in touch with me when they're coming in to go dancing there.

With the encouragement of a few folks (my sister, my apartmentmate, someone at dancing who works in computers), I'm leaning towards just getting a new computer. So- I'm going to do some research, but input from people who have a clue about computers wouldn't hurt. I'm trying to check with the parents for their input, but this must be done by email because they're in Canada and their cellphones aren't so much working there. So hopefully parental input will happen soon- it's strangely unnerving not to have them accessible to run ideas by them.

Other that that, today's achievements thus far have been some packing, cleaning the bathroom, and some mending- but not enough packing or enough mending or errand-running.

Comments

[debka-notion.livejournal.com]

The better tech support would be beautiful. I'm quite sure that my last tech support dude understood only relevant English and only in response to his own questions: certainly he didn't understand a word of my summary of what the previous tech support dude did. Blargh.

But the whole expense and incompatibility with other people's stuff is off-putting: I'd like to be able to send essays back and forth for editting, this being a bit of an ingrained habit (and being lousy at editting my own work). I don't know- I'm torn.

[elfsdh.livejournal.com]

DW has a Mac and uses MS Office for Macs. She dumped Windows when she got her current laptop about a year and a half ago. Files transfer between Office for Mac and Office for Windows perfectly well (or, at least as well as they transfer between any two versions of Office on different machines). Also, if you're not into buying new MS Office licenses, you can use open source word processors (Abiword has a native Mac version) and get reasonably good Word compatibility.

As an added benefit, I'm a desktop Linux user myself. I find it easier to fix DW's Mac problems than those on Windows PCs because the Mac OS is based on BSD Unix. :-)

By the way, what do you plan on doing with your old computer? :-)

[debka-notion.livejournal.com]

The old computer will be going either to the nice tech people at Dad's work, or to a friend at dancing who asked first, I believe- he works in computers, and says he can always use the parts.

As for all these this program for that sort of computer things- I just want something that functions without me having to bother those of my friends who are technically inclined too often, as I tend to feel that the exchanges of skills aren't so equal: my academic training is only useful to other people of similar religious inclinations, and my other skill sets are mostly on the domestic side.