Well, I finally made it back to da LBC, back to my little apartment by the ocean. Well, 10 minutes away from the ocean. I feel bad for leaving home, and my goodbye was kind of a tearful one (well, the first goodbye, anyway, I was quietly sneaking out of the house at 4am for my second goodbye). I wish I was at home to be with everyone and to help out, but I've missed so much work already, and I have to work at my client for the next couple weeks. But it's hard. I'm not taking it one day at a time, I'm taking it one moment at a time. There's some times when things just come to me, and I feel a surge of emotion, be it anger, sadness, or just that all to familiar profound sense of loss. It's not too fun, but I'm getting through it.

In a way, it's good to be home. I've missed Dave a lot, and there's a lot a need to do. In a way, I'm already homesick for Chicago, missing the family and friends that I've left there.

But I'm happy, in a small way, because waiting for me in California was my brand spanking new laptop from the office! Whee!!! This one is more than 5x faster than the one I have now. It's got about 30GB of space compared to the 5GB my old one had, and has half a gig of memory, compared to the mere 64MB my last machine had. I've spent most of the day trying to set it up. I'm still in a daze that this thing is so fast! I turned it on, blinked, and it booted up! With my old laptop, I would turn it on, take a shower, do my taxes, watch 'Gone With the Wind' and do my toenails before the thing booted up. I'm feeling a bit spoiled! Now I have to move all our work programs onto the machine, as well as my 'essential' programs. Muhahaha......

On the downside, the thing weighs a ton and the battery pack is as big as my head. OK, not that big, but pretty big.

But I still love you, you big fat Dell!

"And I shall call him Squishy. and he shall be mine, and he shall be my Squishy"

Posted by Yano at December 2, 2003 11:25 PM

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