author: Nicole J. LeBoeuf

No, the latest goal post has not yet been met. But shush. Let's not talk about that. I am in the middle of a laptop transition. Finally. Yes, the warranty company bought out my broken Averatec, and after two Averatecs committed suicide on me, I'm hopping to a brand with, I hope, more longevity. This here is almost exactly what the new machine'll look like; think WinXP Home instead of Pro, think Intel Core Duo T2050 instead of T2300, and you'll have the basic idea. (And yes, I intend to run Guild Wars on it.)

It came in today. It's had its OS reinstalled to get rid of the various hidden partitions on which Dell was probably smuggling government documents or maybe the secret recipe for Coca Cola. Its drivers are being updated as we speak. Guild Wars will be installed and tried out, because the Computer Renaissance tech has it up and running on his Dell and wants to run a side-by-side comparison. And I'm totally OK with that.

Before long, I shall be about $400 down, one laptop up, and in the middle of transferring my entire life from hard drive to hard drive. I'm having a good day.

More later. With writing and stuff.