Friday brings a new computer!

You know how things always seem to happen in threes? In our family, three computers died within a few months of each other. Dawg's computer died, then within about a week of each other (or so it seems to me) the P's and KeyDear lost their respective computers. Queenee's died first, about a year ago, so that it too far out to count.

The first replacement is installed. Deacon and the EP picked a nice Dell out at Best Buy a few days ago and I went and did the crapware cleanup and software setup yesterday. It went well, only took about six hours, and so far so good. Next up will be Dawg. His computer is on backorder and with luck will arrive just before Christmas.

That leaves YOU, KeyDear!! Tis the season of cheap(ish) technology, get back on the tubes, we miss you!

I was in Costco a couple weeks ago with Queenee and I always cruise the computer aisle. I had a chance to look at the tiny Acer mini-laptop. It's actually not a bad little, and I do mean little, computer. Acceptable specs (still has XP, no CD/DVD player though), good price. I couldn't use that little keyboard, but for those without mangled hands and arms, it is a decent portable computer. I was most surprised by the screen, a very nice display. Not a bad little computer at all. We shall heretofore refer to this computer as the Charlie Brown computer. For more money you can get a much better computer, but it all depends on what you need a computer for — if all you do is surf and check email, you don't need much juice. Juice is for graphics and gaming.