New Bed Buddy

Eduardo, my traveling companion, aka my new laptop, is now spending his first night in bed with me. The blackberry use to be the last electronic I checked before bed and when I first opened my eyes in the morning. Now it is Eduardo. This habit started over the past week in DC and each morning I easily tootled away three hours typing, searching, thinking. That's how Amy's Dream Cafe was born!

Happy

In the past 24 hours I feel like a weight has been lifted and life got a whole lot easier. Reasons why:

1. Filed for Divorce - big step
2. Retired my laptop - so slow and frustrating
3. Bought a Mac - fast and wonderful, I feel younger
4. Amazing arts clients - new clients every week
5. Sun - crisp, clear and sunny spring

Ahhh, I'm breathing so much easier.

Mac Me

My laptop is now on its final legs. Up until about an hour ago I was 100% ready to replace it with another PC. But, after posting a question on my Facebook status - PC or Mac? I'm 90% certain I'm going to go Mac. One step further, I'm going to get a CPU and monitor instead of a Powerbook. That does sound old school but I don't take my laptop out and about with me. In fact, I'm hunched over looking at this monitor all day and typing on a mini keyboard when I could be sitting in an ergonomically correct position looking at a full size monitor.

I feel particularly green because I've reserved my City Car Share to toodle over to the Mac store and will be utilizing my student discount. How San Francisco Bay Area of me.

Did I say I'm cautious?

Starting School Tomorrow

Tomorrow's the big day, starting school again! I keep wondering if everyone is going to have a laptop to take notes. Will I be old school with pen and paper. Will I need a laptop for my Data Analysis for Managers class since the textbook has Excel in the title?

More important - I look forward to unlocking the possibilities of Excel and using it in my work.

How am I ever going to sleep tonight? So exciting! Do you think my classmates will be concerned if I take photos of the class and post them on the blog? I am a blogging fanatic.

Laptop a lagging

My poor old laptop has run out of juice. I'm in the process of getting a new cable from the US. Until then I'll be blogging from my work computer - on my lunch break.

Highlights of the week to come:

Edinburgh Festival: Friday - Sunday
Notting Hill Carnival: Monday

Photos to come...