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I think one of the things I like about this laptop, specifically with it having Windows 8, is that it causes me to take a few more steps going from MS Word to anywhere else. Yes, this is actually a good thing. I like the fact that I don't have the bottom toolbar, so if I want to be distracted by the internets (or anything else for that matter), I need to either move the cursor to one of the screen corners, or toggle the Windows key. They're minor moves that I can get used to, but this obstacle is just enough for me to think twice about switching screens. Do I really want to start toggling so I can waste time looking at pointless things on the internet? Do I want to start toggling so I can waste time with a few games of Solitaire?

More to the point, do I want to toggle so I can lose track of time, and then feel like an idiot when I realize I spent a half hour looking at cat gifs and fifteen minutes on actual writing?

So yeah. I like that I need to work for my leisure on this thing. :)
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So as mentioned on Twitter, I'm surrounded by PCs today: I've got my work laptop up and running (I get to work from home until the end of the year, woo!), I've got my Lenovo laptop on my desk that I'm using to post this, and I've got my main PC which is currently going through a major cleaning. I was listening to Save Alternative earlier today via this laptop, but it seems it was causing everyone else's PC to act wonky in the process (more on that in a minute), so now I'm going lo-fi by listening to KFOG via my old alarm clock radio that's across the room.

The Spare Oom PC has been acting a little wonky lately, and I'm not exactly sure why...it could be that I had way too much stuff (read: mp3s) taking up space on the hard drive that it was slowing things up, or it could be that an update did more harm than good, or maybe just that one of the sectors decided to wig out. I'm not entirely sure, but I'm taking precautions. All the mp3s are now over on the big external, the pictures and other things are over on the other, my writing's on Dropbox, and so on. I've just made a list of programs I use that I can redownload or reinstall just in case I need to reformat. I'm currently doing a CCleaner run that's wiping the free disk space just to clear everything up. Hopefully it'll act better once I'm done here in a few hours, but we'll see.

As for the Lenovo laptop...weird thing, this. For some reason this laptop is the culprit for our router to say ONOES TOO MUCH INFO and crash any open browser on any PC that happens to be up. If I have the time this week I should take a look at the wireless settings on this laptop to see if it's hogging bandwidth or just being stupid. Now that I'm not streaming music and have only this browser up, it seems to be working just fine.

As for the work laptop...well...not much to be said there. As I like to say, it's a POS model, just like most of the others we use at work. ;)

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