the screen, the screen

I’m tired. Real tired. 6am - 7pm workday tired.

Right now I’d rather curl up under the sheets than write in my journal. Which is a bit of a shame, seeing as how two minor miracles (and potentially pivotal events) have occurred in my life recently.

So, goodnight.

What? All right, all right.

Two unbelievable events that began this weekend, flowed into this week in wonderful ways. On Saturday, thanks to Mom & Bob’s limitless generosity, I was able to purchase a brand-new, state of the art, Sony Vaio laptop computer to replace the caveman computer I was using at work.

The old keyboard:

The screen.... the screen... (searches in vain for an apt adjective to describe the breath-takingly beautiful, truer-than-life, deeply-digitally-delightful, jump-through-the-screen kinda image, and comes up with only...) the screen!

A screen so stunning that it brought tears to my eyes. (Actually, so did my previous monitor... but that was due to eye strain.)

The old monitor:

This is the kind of computer that gives me an itchy trigger finger for my digital camera. The kind of computer that makes be glad to be a Photoshop freak. The kind of computer that screams “create something, dammit!”

I’ve spent the past two days loading this incredible instrument with the latest and greatest software: Dreamweaver, GoLive, NikonView, Nik Efex Pro, Pen Palette, Photoshop CS .... (pause for long geek sigh of contentment.)

After this weekend, the office will be rewired so that I can connect to our intranet and use the laptop as my desktop computer. (I promise that my website will come alive visually as soon as this happens!)

The new laptop:

The only catch is -- from this point on -- if I create anything less than stunning and cutting-edge, I have no-one to blame but myself!

As for the other "unbelievable event"... well, you're just going to have to wait for that one. It's bedtime for me!

Posted by elcanche at May 25, 2004 08:15 PM