Americanuck

My company offers this AWESOME perk of having a zero percent loan for Employees who want to A) purchase a new computer or B)upgrade their existing. As this computer is ooohhh ummmm around 4.5 years old it’s time this bad boy’s put out to pasture (otherwise known as donated to the Boys).. well mostly Chris cos Sean really doesn’t use a computer a whole lot. ‘

We are gonna get us a BRAND SPANKING new Dell Dimension 9100 . I love Dell computers, they have their shit together and let you pick what you want and they are nice well made machines and give you Windows Disks so you can reload your Operating system should you have an issue.

I have a hate on of HP like you wouldn’t believe. Tom’s piece of SH.. I mean previous computer was an HP. They Boys WERE using it before Chris infected it with some type of virus (umm don’t even want to know how). I go to reformat the HD and it turns out that HP images the Operating system.. Doesn’t even FREAKING give you a full version of Windows so you can yanno…not be tied to the pre-formatted CRAP that HP wants you to have…ohhh don’t get me started. Anyway.. the second disk of the set is corrupt sooo gosh NO OS on the system. Then I try to wipe it clean to forget it’s an HP to put an older OS on it, but no!! I swear they’ve got some satellite controlling each of them like the Borg…Oops I digress again… so in other words it’s a giant paperweight at the moment.

Chris on the other hand has embraced computers with the pure love and joy of a teenage boy. He’s always chatting with friends on MSN or looking up video game hints or tabs for songs to play on his electric guitar and lord knows what else. OH SHOOT that reminds me we HAVE to get him that amp for his Grad present yet (BAD PARENTS!!)

Speaking of the guitar, Chris is getting really good at playing. He just picked up a used guitar with some of his Christmas money a few months ago and has taught himself to play all kinds of things. He seems to have inherited the music sense that my Sister and a lot of my Mom’s family have. They all love to sing song and harmonize and play instruments etc. My Uncle and Aunt were in a trio that recorded their music and they even played on British TV. Two of my cousins are professionals in the music world currently. My Cousin Oli produces music and plays now and has contributed for a lot of different bands. His Brother Hans is also a very talented musician.. For that matter my Dad said that all his Sisters and Brothers (along with him) all played instruments and used to play together.

K.. what happened to MOI??? Somehow I was not invited to swim in this gene pool. UNFAIR because I love music. Oh wait.. so far Sean only plays video games, I’m not alone in the barren desert of no musical ability!! Ah well I used to sing in choir and I was pretty good I guess, does that count? SIGHHHH.

Chris playing his Guitar

Sean playing… his Nintedo DS

Here’s me…well writing this Blog entry!!

Ok weird… the angle I took it makes my head not look like it’s connected to my body hahaha! Self portraits are not my strength…p.s. pretend you don’t notice the messy desk. We are BOTH bad with having messy desks.

Hmmm gonna lay in wait for Tom and take his picture when he comes home and add it (shhh don’t tell) He should be home in ohhhh 20 mins or so me thinks…

Ooooh and here it is (heehee)!!

Later….

We are sitting here together at the old piece of ummmm crap pc after having a lil drinkie-poo all jazzed up ready to buy the damn thing and … guess what? Dell’s freaking site is down!! Instead of telling us up front…. they make us go through the whole, pick and choose process to find what we wanted only to say “Hey guess what losers the site is down temporarily and to come back later” NICEEEEE. At least they do allow you to back page and save your selection to your ‘wishlist’ otherwise it would have taken another few days (sorry Honey but that is a slam at ya haha) for us to go through the agonizing process of choosing the options to take.

According to Dell we are looking at around mid July for the shipping date hopefully from within Canada this time (see the whole Father’s Day present rant)

We had to boot Chris off the PC (see paragraph above regarding Chris’ attachment to the Internet) but mentioning letting us have the PC in order to buy the new one played in his favour. This way the old one will be his sooner.. haha.