Trick and treat
Oct. 31st, 2011 10:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
filegHappy Samhain to all
And happy anniversary to my sweetie. We are legally married 26 years today (though we will celebrate 34 years together in December)
He is preparing for me something that I think of as a trick and a treat --
For years he has recycled / re-purposed computers that were replaced from his workplace into usable upgrades for friends and/or their kids. Currently he is setting up a laptop that will be for the single purpose of allowing me to play Sims 2.
So the TREAT is, I finally get my sims back! Maxis has never loved the Mac, and I was left in the dust by all the episodes and items that never were ported. And all the things IN the ports that were never really crash proof. When SIms 3 came out and people changed over, he bought me a full set of Sims 2 for the PC on the cheap. I am more excited than I care to admit that I will soon have my Boromir sim making everyone grilled cheese for breakfast again. That boy loves his grilled cheese.
The TRICK is - this will be the very first time I ever used anything Windows. How many non luddite / tech fiends do you know who can say That in this era! I have been on the Mac nearly as long as there were Macs to have. (The first one we owned was the fatmac 512, in 1985) I have never used a PC, or touched anything windows related. I am having a moment of "grandma looks at that newfangled technology" type panic.
I feel like I should hold my hands over the eyes of Totoro, my beautiful Macbook, so he won't be jealous...
This is also my 8th anniversary at Live Journal. I had no idea how much it would come to mean to me, even if I am here less these days.
And happy anniversary to my sweetie. We are legally married 26 years today (though we will celebrate 34 years together in December)
He is preparing for me something that I think of as a trick and a treat --
For years he has recycled / re-purposed computers that were replaced from his workplace into usable upgrades for friends and/or their kids. Currently he is setting up a laptop that will be for the single purpose of allowing me to play Sims 2.
So the TREAT is, I finally get my sims back! Maxis has never loved the Mac, and I was left in the dust by all the episodes and items that never were ported. And all the things IN the ports that were never really crash proof. When SIms 3 came out and people changed over, he bought me a full set of Sims 2 for the PC on the cheap. I am more excited than I care to admit that I will soon have my Boromir sim making everyone grilled cheese for breakfast again. That boy loves his grilled cheese.
The TRICK is - this will be the very first time I ever used anything Windows. How many non luddite / tech fiends do you know who can say That in this era! I have been on the Mac nearly as long as there were Macs to have. (The first one we owned was the fatmac 512, in 1985) I have never used a PC, or touched anything windows related. I am having a moment of "grandma looks at that newfangled technology" type panic.
I feel like I should hold my hands over the eyes of Totoro, my beautiful Macbook, so he won't be jealous...
This is also my 8th anniversary at Live Journal. I had no idea how much it would come to mean to me, even if I am here less these days.
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Date: 2011-11-01 03:22 am (UTC)I do have a winner, indeed!
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Date: 2011-11-01 09:34 am (UTC)Re: Windows, I don't know which operating system you're used to but, with the exception of the shut down being attached to the start button, it's pretty obvious in it's use. I am sadly bi-OS Windows/Linux (Ubuntu), but I grew up on Macs.
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