Ebjournal Revisited.

Well, it IS a wide-screen

Random comments from a second grade teacher is back, after a hellish hiatus known as February. Lowlights for February included:
Progress Reports (aka “Report Card Narrative Purgatory”)
Applying to grad school (got in, btw)
Applying to financial aid for said grad school (no word, yet)
Parent-Teacher Conferences (I LOVE the 14 1/2 work days, don’t you?)

But, with my thoughts turning to spring, spring training, and spring break, there were highlights in February:
Valentine’s Day weekend (Le Titi de Paris c’est manifique!, and Lewis Black was amusing)
Decorating the apt. more (new throw pillows, [just for you, Eric,] and some hangings for the bedroom)
AND THE BEST PART OF ALL…

The NEW laptop.
Yes, folks, I’ve leapt forward from 1997 to a modern marvel of technology. For those of you taking notes at home, I’ve got a Dell with a Pentium M 715,(1.5 GHZ) 60 GB/7200 rpm, 512 MB RAM, 24x CD-burning MACHINE. And yes, it’s the 15.4 widescreen.
Thanks to Mom and J generous b-day gift (Best Buy card) I bought a wireless router so that everything would be ready to go once the notebook arrived. It came yesterday. My eyes hurt from so much staring in joy.
{By the way, thank you SO SO MUCH to the lovely and engaging Mrs. K for this gift. It was a wonderful surprise. And thanks to Rich for helping her find the right laptop for me}

Now if only I weren’t a monkey trying to type Shakespeare, I would take this puppy for a ride. After reading Kenny’s post aboutwhat to install on a new machine I got the wireless up and running, and started downloading things, in this order:
1)AIM (so I could ask others what to download)
2)Firefox, 2a)Windows Updates
3)Spybot
4)Ad-aware
5)iTunes (transferred my music over from the old machine, too)

Now, faithful readers, since I’ve joined you in the 22nd century, what else do I need to download?
I’m fired up, it’s March, and I’m uber-connected.

Go Illini.

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