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Tentative Technical Triumph
Sep. 1st, 2017 06:31 pmSo, my computer and my phone arrived on Thursday. They are both, as we speak, working. I did not cry. I did dissociate at least once. There was also a point at which David asked me a question about my computer, and I was completely unable to answer in words, although I knew the answer. I picked up various pieces, and demonstrated how they went together, and this was completely explanatory. David said it was very odd to watch, since I clearly understood the question, and could answer it, but was also clearly completely a-verbal at the time. Ah, stress.
So, I now have a Motorola Moto 5 Plus. It is very slick, and nice, and takes an microSD, and has lots and lots of memory. When I told it to retrieve info from my old phone, it did so very smoothly. I got to keep my Neko Atsume cats! It is is a very small thing, I suppose, but I am extremely pleased about this. I had lost them all during the unmentionable and probably unnecessary failed factory reset. And while I wasn't very far along at recollecting them, I really didn't want to lose them again. Also, I'd gone through and done the renaming thing, again, and that matters to me. (Yes, I have named various virtual cats after my beloved and deceased cats. Fight me!) The battery life, when used reasonably heavily, seems to be about six hours. It does not, however, charge in 15 minutes, which is what I thought the PR claimed. Either they lied, or they phrased it misleadingly. Either way, I don't care that much. I did decide to allow it to read my fingerprint, which I feel weird about. Amongst my odd, irrational phobias is having one's fingers chopped off, and there's like, zero reason that anyone would need anything off my phone enough that they would chop off my finger, but still, euwww. Silly assed phobia.
The MacBook Air is, well, light as air. I love the keyboard. I love how fast it is. It is running Sierra, which I guess is fine? I can do a tutorial to find out all the wonderful things that it does. Possibly I will do that. I just love how light it is. It is also much faster than my old MacBook Pro. I went with the same screen size, 13", and paid extra to upgrade the SSD drive to 512GB, rather than the 256GB. I also, somewhat pessimistically, paid for Apple Care. This was not a cheap machine. But I love it. I put it in my knit bag today, as an experiment, and it is really light, and easy to tote. I restored from a Time Machine backup, and this went very smoothly. It took almost three hours, but that's fine. I have all my (virtual) things. Have I mentioned how light it is?
So, I'm feeling good about things. Pretty much every time I make a major upgrade to my life, something happens that I think of as my happiness tax. I get that this is rank superstition. This time, I forgot to attend a class that I had paid $85 for, and which is non-refundable. So, my happiness tax is, I hope, $85. I was able to find a comparable class to take tomorrow. So, hopefully the tax is entirely money, and no blood or serious pain is required to cover my new technological lease on life.
Thank you, everyone who sent me contact info. I'll be working on getting that into my new phone. I really appreciate it.
So, I now have a Motorola Moto 5 Plus. It is very slick, and nice, and takes an microSD, and has lots and lots of memory. When I told it to retrieve info from my old phone, it did so very smoothly. I got to keep my Neko Atsume cats! It is is a very small thing, I suppose, but I am extremely pleased about this. I had lost them all during the unmentionable and probably unnecessary failed factory reset. And while I wasn't very far along at recollecting them, I really didn't want to lose them again. Also, I'd gone through and done the renaming thing, again, and that matters to me. (Yes, I have named various virtual cats after my beloved and deceased cats. Fight me!) The battery life, when used reasonably heavily, seems to be about six hours. It does not, however, charge in 15 minutes, which is what I thought the PR claimed. Either they lied, or they phrased it misleadingly. Either way, I don't care that much. I did decide to allow it to read my fingerprint, which I feel weird about. Amongst my odd, irrational phobias is having one's fingers chopped off, and there's like, zero reason that anyone would need anything off my phone enough that they would chop off my finger, but still, euwww. Silly assed phobia.
The MacBook Air is, well, light as air. I love the keyboard. I love how fast it is. It is running Sierra, which I guess is fine? I can do a tutorial to find out all the wonderful things that it does. Possibly I will do that. I just love how light it is. It is also much faster than my old MacBook Pro. I went with the same screen size, 13", and paid extra to upgrade the SSD drive to 512GB, rather than the 256GB. I also, somewhat pessimistically, paid for Apple Care. This was not a cheap machine. But I love it. I put it in my knit bag today, as an experiment, and it is really light, and easy to tote. I restored from a Time Machine backup, and this went very smoothly. It took almost three hours, but that's fine. I have all my (virtual) things. Have I mentioned how light it is?
So, I'm feeling good about things. Pretty much every time I make a major upgrade to my life, something happens that I think of as my happiness tax. I get that this is rank superstition. This time, I forgot to attend a class that I had paid $85 for, and which is non-refundable. So, my happiness tax is, I hope, $85. I was able to find a comparable class to take tomorrow. So, hopefully the tax is entirely money, and no blood or serious pain is required to cover my new technological lease on life.
Thank you, everyone who sent me contact info. I'll be working on getting that into my new phone. I really appreciate it.
