grrr-aarrrgggh!

While I have not really named an inanimate object since my car in high school (Winston, in honour of that fabulous high school), I have come to the realisation that, though unintentional, my computer's name is Shwartz McFly. This is because practically every time I try to use it it gets really slow or worse, completely unresponsive. Web pages load like dial up, text will sometimes take 30 seconds or more to appear (making it ever more difficult to catch typos, about which I am really anal), and quite often I click a button, or go to move the cursor in a text box, and nothing happens, leaving me to wonder if the click registered, so I click again, and... well it's a mess. And that's just the average. There are times when it is much worse!

Anyway, when it is slow, but working, I chant to it, "Come on Shwartz, come on Shwartz!" (Spaceballs) And when it is unresponsive I find myself saying, "Hello McFly!" (Back to the Future) So considering the frequency with which I utter these things to my VERY inanimate computer, I realise that, like it or not, this computer's name is Shwartz McFly.

And all I can say is Thank You Thank You Thank You Dad for helping me put Shwartz here into early retirement! After next week it will not need to do anything but hold the occasional online css or photoshop tutorial page for me while a shiny new desktop helps me do things this McFly could never dream of! And I'll probably be able to run a second program, like play music, while doing it! I can't even imagine what it will be like to use computer programs in real time.... It's like a dream!

love-love. Lindsay