My New Computer

I got my new computer on Friday. It’s a Dell Inspiron 14R. While so far I don’t have any problems with it, I do have loads of problems with the programming I bought for it.

It’s amazing what you don’t know when you work at an institution that has a separate department for computers. Changes in computers are difficult to follow unless you happen to be in the computer department, or you happen to follow such things regularly.

I wasn’t aware that in order to load new programming, you had to have online access. Apparently, the current software requires that you register online while you load it on your computer. I was doing this at home, and as such, I have no online access. I actually had to take it all with me to work—on a Sunday—just so I could load the software, and have Ethernet access to register it. Then I found out there was something missing from one of the software packages, and of course the company that makes the software wasn’t open on Sunday.

Now I am at work—it’s Monday after all—and when I get to my lunch break I’m going to have to call the company that makes the software so they can give me the missing bit of info so I can enter it into the computer and complete the registration so it can complete loading the software so I can actually use the program—after work—and with any luck have a bit of lunch as well…

When did the world become so frantic?