New iMac! (Blog 224)

Yesterday, (or was it??) I ordered a new refurbished iMac on the phone. (Yes, I mean a new old computer - it’s new for me, but old for someone else. Ever so slightly trippy, but not too complicated if you put the effort into it. I did and I’m reaping the rewards. You can be a king of logic, too). Why did I do so? Because my internet went absolutely mental and kept crashing my old Mac. Nope, not just the site I was on, everything. That’s never fun. In fact it was plain scary. That’s not too surprising though, as it’s about 12 years old, now. Pretty good value for money, right? To my huge surprise, the guy I was talking to said the new thingamajig would be delivered the next day. (Now today (or is it?) - I’m being trippy, again. Or confusing).

I’m not sure why I had the option of picking the thing up in Kingston, or getting it delivered to my house for free. Maybe I’d want to go to the town for the day out. There is a nice chocolate shop there I guess, but unless it’s regarded as essential (which it should be), it’s probably closed anyway. Hm. The option is a bit of a mystery, then. Maybe it was assumed I’d enjoy the train/car ride. I mean, maybe sometimes I do like travelling, I’ve just never heard of a computer company saying to its customers ‘I’m sure you’ll absolutely love our product. How do you feel about relaxing in a carriage for a bit, and seeing the world pass you bye? Fun, no?’ I’ll drop it.

I don’t know exactly when my computer is coming, so I can’t leave the house to get food. Sure, I could check online to see, but that would spoil the surprise. I’m making up for the fact there is no true day out. (Or anything to look forward to - just a computer). Oh my, my package has arrived just this minute! 10:30 AM? Not to be sniffed at. I don’t mean to sound like a baby, but I’ll wait till my dad comes home, to unbox it and plug it in. When I got my MacBook last year it was very straightforward to set up, but I want to be sure. Computers with all your files on are not the kind of thing you want to screw up. In particular I want to be 100% certain I’m migrating documents from my now sucky computer onto my new old one that I’m sure is amazing.

As explained on the phone, I may need to get a member of staff to help me with all that business. If so, I’m assuming he’ll have access to my old computer screen. If so again, I thought it might be a good idea to have folders saying ‘evil schemes’ or ‘crimes’ or whatever. Just to get an interesting reaction. It definitely could be taken the wrong way though, so I’ll leave it. On another note, I recently sprayed a grape with Lynx, and it seems I’ve made a new smell. It smells good, just a bit grapey. I have a new idea for a Lynx product name: Simply ‘Grape’. However, it could be that I’m just sensing deodorant and nothing else, as grapes don’t really smell of anything. I hope not, though. I genuinely thought I was onto something. I think I’m going to leave this blog for a while, get some food, then some exercise and THEN do some miscellaneous stuff. Fingers crossed this whole computer business will go well! Bye!

Okey, dokey. A little later on there was some SERIOUS drama when I missed a phone call. The electronic message I got said (something like) 3 billion, 230 million, 500 thousand etc. A very large number, basically. Oh my word! That’s what I was charged for my new item?? Obviously that must have been a mistake, but I still panicked as if that went wrong, what else did? Maybe thousands of computers would be delivered to me? Who knows. Thank GOD, it was the item number, not the price. Phew! I have actually heard of people getting charged billions for meals or whatever, but to be fair, none got arrested because they couldn’t pay. Still though. Rather worrisome.

A while passes...

You know how I started off this blog with ‘yesterday’? Well actually I wrote that word a few days ago now. At the time, I was expecting my computer migration to be sorted out in less than 24 hours (it actually took about 72), and therefore the blog should have been done in two days. I guess not. It’s difficult to explain the whole situation. So I won’t bother. Anyway, as I waited I could still use my MacBook, which was most definitely something. To pass the time, I filled out a questionnaire concerning how good the guy on the phone selling my computer was. As a joke I said the service was ‘almost too good to be true’. Not as a joke, I gave the guy top marks because he knew his subject SO well. He really did. I was also asked how well the man built up a connection with me. I could have said ‘Who cares? All I wanted was a new Mac’ but perhaps for the best, I left it.

So, the big day: What was it like when my iMac was fully migrated/updated (by me :O), restarted and almost ready to set up? It was pretty scary, as having to wait to see if your files have been copied or gone forever never gets any easier. Why when starting does there have to be a good few seconds when the Mac screen is blank and folderless? Is the calming picture of the ocean/mountains/galaxy supposed to make me feel any better? Well it doesn’t. In fact, I just associate the pictures with anxiety, now. Anyway, the sense of relief in the end, that I’ve (yes, me :O) set everything up correctly (apparently) is absolutely super duper. Annoyingly, I couldn’t copy my script writing software as it’s out of date, meaning I’m going to have to use my old Mac for that stuff, but on the plus side I CAN still access the program used to make the Special Thumbs Up artwork. The contest as we know it can continue! I thought I was going to have to resort to using random pictures of toasters/ladders, etc. but again, no need. That’s it! Bye!