my new laptop

i got my new laptop on friday. i'm not sure why i thought going out to the 'burbs on a friday night was a good idea, but i did it and there's nothing i can do to get those 2 hours on the Kennedy back. but i got to hang out with my mom and watch her buy gifts for my sis and my boyfriend. and that was cool. but anyway. back to the laptop.

i'm not impressed. it has sharp edges where i rest my wrists. on my iBook, those edges were smooth and comfortable. this laptop leaves huge welts on the undersides of my arms. nice. and i know it's refurbished, but i've already had to force quit the damn thing a few times, once when i woke it up and that stupid gay beach ball of death just spun and spun when i tried to use yahoo and safari. it's like my whole wireless connection just pissed it off. the other times were last night, during a vain attempt to install my printer drivers so my laser printer wouldn't run pages through itself, pretending to print. when i clicked on my driver in the drop down window, that goddamned beach ball just spun. assholes.

hey, apple, instead of coming up with witty ways to remake the desktop and update that iCal that no one ever uses, why don't you come up with a way to MAKE THAT FUCKING BEACH BALL STOP SPINNING. jesus, with my OS 8 mac, that dumb black and white beach ball didn't come out to play nearly a tenth that the rainbow one does. is this the downside of trying to become more like PC? since you guys don't make processors nearly as fast as PCs but you want to run programs like a PC, the information ends up getting backed up like... well, like the kennedy on a friday night.

if apple goes to "open-road tolling," i'm outta here.