I can't do that

So far I've spent my whole weekend playing with my new laptop. I had built my dream laptop about a million times on the Dell website, they kept raising the limit on my credit, how could I resist? Seriously: I'm only human you know.

So a couple weeks ago I built another one, but this time I actually hit checkout. Oops!

In preparation for the impending laptopery I decided to wire the house with wireless. I rang up Qwest and requested said wireless. Now, call me naive, but I thought I had to talk to sales to get that set up. He asked if I had a modem already, and I said yeah-- and it was one that had wireless built in.

He actually said, "Then why are you calling?"

Well, pardon me for thinking I needed to tell billing or get some switch hit or something. The tech guy kind of snottily said he'd get me a tech person who could get me all set up. I was patched though to someone who was clearly used to dealing with simpletons and attorneys. Redundant much? Yes, I am. Anyway, to get started, he told me, I needed to open Internet Explorer, "the blue 'E' on your desktop".

I sympathized. I let him lead me through all the steps without once letting him know I kinda knew what I was doing. At least, I knew how to open IE.

My laptop arrived on Wednesday, which could not have been a better time. I got it at about 9:00 AM and spent very little time working for the rest of the day. My laptop is blue and pretty and has Vista, which I thought I was prepared for, but I'm not. I still get lost really easily, but that just makes it funner.



So now I can site in the big blue chair downstairs, pissing off the cats because there's no lap left for them, while The Husband is upstairs getting lost in the Wikipedia. In fact, Tbone just jumped over from the loveseat onto the blue chair and, once she saw my lap was not empty and my fingers not available for scritching.

I'm sorry this story isn't all that exciting. As an apology, please accept this clip from Amazing Race.

Hee, I say, Hee!!!!!!!