songbird's crazy world

I downloaded oovoo to the laptop last night. now I will be able to videochat with Jen when she's away at school. and Becca has videochat on her laptop as well. welcome to the 21st century. my father likes to tell the story of the 1939 World's Fair in NYC. the science pavillions had fancy new gadgets that seemed to be right out of the comic books --like TV . and the 1964 Fair and telephones with video capability, something only science fiction could dream about. I am my father's daughter. the first time i bought a flip phone, I kept wanting to open it up and say "Kirk to Enterprise, beam me up, Scotty," and when I enter an address on the GPS I want to tell Sulu to enter coordinates on the navigational computer and set a course for....wherever. and come to think of it, don't our cell phones and PDA's and laptops and etc. serve some of the functions of a tricorder? Lord help us, we actually have vehicles with remote control start and sensors to tell us...

oh happy day!!! the new laptop has arrived. I am overjoyed to have a laptop that weighs half of what my dinosaur weighed, with nifty new gadgets like wifi and a webcam, especially since we set up a wireless network at home when we got Fios. I have felt adrift since the dinosaur keeled over. I mean, I can connect to the net through my voyager...but as great as the phone is, its limitations are also readily apparent. life is good.

borrowed mom's laptop yesterday and placed my order with Dell. my new computer will be here by March 5....complete with wifi, a webcam, up to date software and bluetooth -including a wireless mouse- so I can have fun playing and still manage to get work done. meantime I'm posting from the phone again...

so, you haven't heard much from me lately. I am posting this from my phone. and I have to be very careful, because if Ipress the CLR button too hard my whole post will vanish into the stratosphere. so excuse the typos. my laptop seems to have bitten the dust. it's been running slow, it overheats, it tells me my hard drive is nearly full amd that I am low on memory. I've had it for 4 years, and I understand laptops have a limited usseful life. I wanted to get it into the Geek Squad months ago. but for reasons I won't get into now, until the fios guy showed up yesterday mine was the only 'puter in the house with an internet connection...and kidlet needed access to turnitin.com. I don't know if my laptop is salvageable now. I have a killer cold. been sick since wednesday. of course I am sick, I am going to Boston on Monday. and my colds tend to morph into ear infections and bronchitis. one time Ieven had pneumonia. and ever notice that the week before v...