Agonotheta

Fuming with Geekiness

October 23, 2003

My temper has been tested as of late. I know, I know. "Neil you're getting upset about your computer! How big a geek are you?" Well, let me tell you.

Usually waking up late in the morning, the first thing I do is check my always-on, internet-connected, self-built computer for any emails that I received during my slumber, both work-related and personal. After the email has been read, responded to, and what not, I sync up my 30 Gig iPod, disconnect it from its dock and begin getting dressed. While I am very proud of my couture, I do not customarily lay out my clothes, take polaroids (as Carson from Queer Eye advises), or even spend 2 seconds picking out my ensemble for the day. I'm in the car blazing down the street to be on time.

Once I arrive at work, I get my coffee that I didn't have time to make at home, let alone drink, and sit down at my double-monitor, Wacom Intuos2 9"x12" Tablet enabled 2.4 Ghz Dell to begin a hard-working day of web design. I typically have my email application always running, along with three different web-browsers (my favorite of which has several tabs with different web pages in each), Adobe Photoshop, and Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004, and Windows Explorer. This totals seven open running applications on my desktop at any one time during the day.

Once I leave work and arrive home, I typically get something to drink, plop myself down in front of my computer once again catching up on blogs that I didn't have a chance to get to during the day, which could include my own. After doing something hopefully fun at night, I usually check email one more time before plugging in my iPod to recharge its drained 8-hour battery.

Yes, I am a geek. In fact, here it is almost 11:30 in the evening and I'm glued to my PC writing about my geekitude, if that word even exists.

At long last, why am I fuming? Well, I wouldn't be posting at this hour had my "self-built" computer not frozen up when I got home and decided not to restart. To make a long story short and skip the boring extremely geeky explanation, it has a problem.

So, what am I going to do about it? Will I replace the part? Hell no. I've had it with PC's. I'll use one at work because I have to. But at home, I don't. I sound like one of those Apple tv ads don't I? Well, its true. I should be one.

I'm going to buy, as soon as I can, a 15" Powerbook G4 from Apple!