Sunday, December 25, 2011

Christmas presents

I got nothing for Christmas this year, but my computer did rather well. Her first Christmas present -- from Santa Clause -- was 1MByte of RAM. My son installed it, upgrading my system from 512 KB to 1.25MB. The transformation is amazing; where before my computer was limping along like a geriatric vampire stranded between blood donor clinics, now it’s skipping around from task to task like a wild teenager called Bella.


My computer's second acquisition was a wireless mouse donated by my son. It’s working perfectly, and I expect it’s doing what it’s designed to do, but I’m not sure I can live with it. Who can live with a hyperactive mouse? My old one -- the one with the tail -- was sluggish, downright non-cooperative at times; this new one has power steering and a sport button, marked "DPI". Even without pressing the button, it’s all over the place busy-busy like a worker-ant on steroids. It makes me dizzy. Heaven only knows what it gets up to on its own while I'm in bed, asleep.

6 comments:

Jack Eason said...

While JJ's away, the mouse will play eh?

anyakelleye said...

Maybe you need a cat? ;)

Juliana L. Brandt said...

Here's hoping it's not messing with your writing at night.

GreatGothNinja said...

Please tell me it was 1Gig of memory replacing 512Meg?:o)

Lene Andersen said...

geriatric vampire. Snort!

JJ Toner said...

GGN: I had 2x256 MB in 2 slots
Now I have 1x256 and 1x1GB in the 2 slots.

(Actually, it was so successful, I bought another 1GB, so I now have 2GB, one in each slot)