I am almost there! This will be a confessional of sorts but nothing really graphic or bloody. My computer is on its death bed and has in fact been pretty sick for a long time. It is in my shop and black from steel dust and at ten years is just plain old. I am told the Rams are full to the top and the gigabytes have been eaten.
There is no more room, no digital expansion, no more space between the electrons, nothing.
Slow has been okay for me. I have learned a great deal from this speed and often it has matched my own.
I can watch utube seven seconds at a time then it reconfigures and adjusts, pausing to get direction and space. Some of you have emailed me or attempted "live chat" while this computer was attempting something else and, good old friend that it has been, it is incapable of doing two things at the same time. It cannot multi-task.
I have slowly introduced myself to this modern world. There is another computer in the house but it is clean and sleek with no scars from actual living, not even a speck of dust. It is the "house computer", my wife's computer and I have never touched it. However, she is sleek and modern (the house computer, not the wife) and well connected. High speed cable with all the bells and whistles! Can dance and sing at the same time and knows tricks this old country boy has never heard of!
My shop computer and I are friends and it has been a wonderful and slow friendship. "Friends first"!
She is connected to a land line and tethered like that is a bit timid and slow with the world. As friendships sometimes go, she remains the same while I have changed. Breaking up has not been easy. I am confronted with decisions that I have never faced. I am so used to her pauses and hesitation. I know when she is just plain not thinking! I confess that when she was at her worst, when she was just so very slow, I was thinking about another! Yes I was.
There is nothing ever that will replace a first love. You can never regain that singular experience that always comes with fantasy and unrealistic ambitions. In a way this first computer and I grew up together.
I think she taught me everything she knew and she was patient, I'll give her that. With a new computer I wanted an entirely different experience. Not repeating the same kinds of things. I want to go FAST!
I did justify this divorce. The old computer and its provider service have been expensive mistresses, forcing me to keep a land line and tying me to two providers, the cable for the house and connected to the telephone in my shop. I have no cable connected to the shop and always thought that these relationships just had to be the way they were.
Then I discovered, several years later because I am pretty slow too, Wi-fi! With a router gadget I could free myself from the world of wires and cables! Unbound! Untethered!
So for the rest of December I have 2 computers! Then there will be changes! I am at the first kiss stage
now and find it difficult to let go. I'll keep you posted on what happens. I think I will be losing my email address and have to find another. As a part of this freedom experience I will be abandoning my land line telephone number that I have had for over 40 years! I don't know what to do about that yet. I am not yet comfortable with my new found freedom!
There is no more room, no digital expansion, no more space between the electrons, nothing.
Slow has been okay for me. I have learned a great deal from this speed and often it has matched my own.
I can watch utube seven seconds at a time then it reconfigures and adjusts, pausing to get direction and space. Some of you have emailed me or attempted "live chat" while this computer was attempting something else and, good old friend that it has been, it is incapable of doing two things at the same time. It cannot multi-task.
I have slowly introduced myself to this modern world. There is another computer in the house but it is clean and sleek with no scars from actual living, not even a speck of dust. It is the "house computer", my wife's computer and I have never touched it. However, she is sleek and modern (the house computer, not the wife) and well connected. High speed cable with all the bells and whistles! Can dance and sing at the same time and knows tricks this old country boy has never heard of!
My shop computer and I are friends and it has been a wonderful and slow friendship. "Friends first"!
She is connected to a land line and tethered like that is a bit timid and slow with the world. As friendships sometimes go, she remains the same while I have changed. Breaking up has not been easy. I am confronted with decisions that I have never faced. I am so used to her pauses and hesitation. I know when she is just plain not thinking! I confess that when she was at her worst, when she was just so very slow, I was thinking about another! Yes I was.
There is nothing ever that will replace a first love. You can never regain that singular experience that always comes with fantasy and unrealistic ambitions. In a way this first computer and I grew up together.
I think she taught me everything she knew and she was patient, I'll give her that. With a new computer I wanted an entirely different experience. Not repeating the same kinds of things. I want to go FAST!
I did justify this divorce. The old computer and its provider service have been expensive mistresses, forcing me to keep a land line and tying me to two providers, the cable for the house and connected to the telephone in my shop. I have no cable connected to the shop and always thought that these relationships just had to be the way they were.
Then I discovered, several years later because I am pretty slow too, Wi-fi! With a router gadget I could free myself from the world of wires and cables! Unbound! Untethered!
So for the rest of December I have 2 computers! Then there will be changes! I am at the first kiss stage
now and find it difficult to let go. I'll keep you posted on what happens. I think I will be losing my email address and have to find another. As a part of this freedom experience I will be abandoning my land line telephone number that I have had for over 40 years! I don't know what to do about that yet. I am not yet comfortable with my new found freedom!
2 comments:
Consider me tethered to the landline. That said, I just love new computers! Have fun with your new one, Jer. You made me laugh with "not the wife" comment.
Trust me if you get fast speed and new computer you'll love it. You'll be so busy looking at stuff cuz you can see it so much easier it will be awesome. Fun Fun
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