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chelseagirl) wrote2021-04-30 08:27 am
chelseagirl) wrote2021-04-30 08:27 am
So *that* was not clever
My laptop is very mobile. Not only does it travel with me, whether to work or on trips, but I use it all over the apartment, in the bedroom (desk or bed), livingroom (couch), and dining alcove (table). Only last Saturday I managed to drop it, and while I'm due for a new one in the fall (thank you, university!), one of the hinges broke and the trackpad went wonky.
I dropped it off on Monday, thinking maybe they could tighten a screw or something, but they pointed out there was an area that was exposed at the crack and maybe it could be repaired or maybe I'd get a replacement. I was next on campus on Thursday (we're still semi-remote, so I've been going in twice a week for my "converged" class and to work in the office, which is large and nice and right now very quiet). I stopped by the desk where I'd dropped it off and the student working there was like "well, they haven't gotten back to me and . . ."
So I had a heavy old loaner in my office, and was using M's at home. FWIW, M's mum bought us a desktop when we were first married -- within a few months it was clear that sharing a computer was a bad idea, and I went back to using my laptop. So yeah. Feeling very unsettled not having a computer of my own to set up all my stuff on.
Thank goodness, I saw that B's light was on in his office as I left the building. B made a few phone calls and in about an hour or so, P was at my office with a new Lenovo. He said it could be loaner and I could trade it in when I'm supposed to exchange in the fall, or I could just keep it. By the time I get everything set up, I suspect I'm going to just keep it. Also, they're unsure Lenovos or Dells and I rather undignifiedly said "not Dell!!" because I had one good Dell in the early 90s and then they started overproducing and I had very bad experiences with Dells consistently (my own, using my mom's, ones at offices I worked at).
So now I'm moving things over from my external hard drive and trying to recall correct passwords for all the sites I visit on a regular basis. And wondering if I am just a dinosaur when P asked why I didn't save everything to Google Drive? I said it was because I don't like Googledocs and prefer to use Word and be able to work offline, but he said I didn't need to use Googledocs and now I am thinking that I really should look into this.
And ironically? I picked out M's new computer last fall, and got a different Lenovo model from the one I had. Which is now the model I have, too, so . . . twinsies?
I dropped it off on Monday, thinking maybe they could tighten a screw or something, but they pointed out there was an area that was exposed at the crack and maybe it could be repaired or maybe I'd get a replacement. I was next on campus on Thursday (we're still semi-remote, so I've been going in twice a week for my "converged" class and to work in the office, which is large and nice and right now very quiet). I stopped by the desk where I'd dropped it off and the student working there was like "well, they haven't gotten back to me and . . ."
So I had a heavy old loaner in my office, and was using M's at home. FWIW, M's mum bought us a desktop when we were first married -- within a few months it was clear that sharing a computer was a bad idea, and I went back to using my laptop. So yeah. Feeling very unsettled not having a computer of my own to set up all my stuff on.
Thank goodness, I saw that B's light was on in his office as I left the building. B made a few phone calls and in about an hour or so, P was at my office with a new Lenovo. He said it could be loaner and I could trade it in when I'm supposed to exchange in the fall, or I could just keep it. By the time I get everything set up, I suspect I'm going to just keep it. Also, they're unsure Lenovos or Dells and I rather undignifiedly said "not Dell!!" because I had one good Dell in the early 90s and then they started overproducing and I had very bad experiences with Dells consistently (my own, using my mom's, ones at offices I worked at).
So now I'm moving things over from my external hard drive and trying to recall correct passwords for all the sites I visit on a regular basis. And wondering if I am just a dinosaur when P asked why I didn't save everything to Google Drive? I said it was because I don't like Googledocs and prefer to use Word and be able to work offline, but he said I didn't need to use Googledocs and now I am thinking that I really should look into this.
And ironically? I picked out M's new computer last fall, and got a different Lenovo model from the one I had. Which is now the model I have, too, so . . . twinsies?