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Well, I spent all last night (since the hard drive got here around 3:30pm or so) moving my entire hard drive over to the external one, and then erasing/reformatting my internal one so I could move everything back again!!!
(That takes a long time.)
So, at 2am, I headed to bed, leaving the computer to do a few last tasks on its own. Got up at 7:30am because I play basketball with some friends on Wednesday mornings at 8:00am. I spent about 20 more minutes finishing up some clean-up on the computer before heading out (at 8:07!!), leaving my computer wide-open with both internal drives pulled – waiting for me to install upon my return.
THEN…
Today was also the day our phone number officially transferred to Vonage. We’re trying that out for a while. So, I had to move some stuff around, plug and unplug and all sorts of fun with tangled wires to make sure that was working (all while continuing to transfer files so that everything was in the right place.) Vonage is really cool because all I did was plug their router into my router, and then a phone cord into the jack in the wall (which now has a three-way splitter) and.. viola! EVERY phone in our house gets that signal. Crazy.
So, once I got that working, and tested that we could receive calls, I continued to reset preferences, and move and manage files on all the computers. Every time we do this it messes up our printer, too… so I have been downloading and re-installing all the drivers for that.
Lovely.
So… with all of this, and a few other things. The computer seen above has been on my mind. I have been thinking that 6 years will be a good time to upgrade. My computer has served me well. It’s a great computer. In fact, a friend of mine is going to purchase it from us for a fair price and hopefully it will continue to be a great computer for him. I am wanting to upgrade for a few reasons: space, quicker processing of graphics, and it just seems like time for an upgrade.
Oh! I know. It’s also a great time to upgrade because Apple is switching their entire line-up of computers over to Intel processors. The current computers will still run all the new stuff for quite a long time, BUT, Apple likes to stay ahead of the game, so once a new line comes out, the old one goes way down in price! (I’m counting on that!) And actually, the computer linked above (the Dual 2.7Ghz G5) is already a generation old! So… if I am lucky, we’ll get a fantastic computer at a similarly fantastic price.
Here’s hopin’.
So, that’s the update from here. Sorry to any of my clients who also read my blog page. It’s been a CRAZY week just doing all this maintenance stuff at home. On top of the computers and phones… I also had to fix our washing machine! Crazy.
I hope to get some work done in the next hour or so, and get at it tomorrow EARLY in the morning!!!
So, with an expected tax return, and a little cash on hand, plus the sale of our current computer… we should make out alright with a fancy new G5 in the not too distant future!
Course… donations wouldn’t hurt… 😉