I was able to buy a laptop last week-end. Nothing fancy but it’ll do what I need to do… lots of writing, a little bit of web-surfing, an occasional game of Majhong. Anyway, there’s always a transition when I get a new computer, and this time was no different.
I subscribe to Carbonite and found that transferring the files from my desktop to my laptop was a breeze. I’m in the process of familiarizing myself with Windows 7. All this is a distraction, taking me away from the art of writing.
For example, I wrote a short screenplay and was converting it to PDF format, something I did all the time on my old desktop. So, I press the commands to save it to PDF and I get some stupid message that tells me the computer can’t find my printer. What the– ? Anyway, I emailed the SP to myself at my old computer and did what I needed to do there but… it’s a distraction.
I remember my first computer back in the early 1980s. No hard drive. One floppy disk (yes, floppy disk) drive. A printer that looked like a converted typewriter. I remember sitting at the computer and crying. Oh, we have come a long way… I think I’m on my sixth or seventh computer, couldn’t tell you for sure. I know it’s my second laptop. In fact, I’m using my old laptop backpack and I had to shorten the strap that holds the computer in place. My old laptop was much bigger than the one I have now. The old one weighed over 20 pounds.l This one weighs only 5-1/2 pounds.
So, this week, I haven’t gotten too much writing done but I think most of the distraction is behind me. Just have to figure out how to convert the files to PDF without getting a printer message. It’ll all work out in time. It always does. I just hate being distracted!
