Hours and hours of installing programs and restarting and uninstalling and restarting and moving files and deleting files. While my software documentation system has greatly aided the process, I will be quite glad to have this transfer of data completed.

What am I doing, you ask? Putting my life on my new GREEN laptop. More retail therapy. Slightly ashamed, although I have 6 months to pay for it, so it will be paid out of cash. I am still debt free (save for the mortgage). I just haven't saved anything in the past two months. Instead, I have been working out my angst by upgrading a few things around the house...the television, the computer, the camera...

My dearest B will be the beneficiary of my current laptop. Perhaps after taking off all the design software I have on it, the sluggish processing will cease for her. Selfishly, the alacrity with which I decided to upgrade the laptop was rooted in the fact that now that B will have a laptop that actually works she will be able to play Scrabble with me from her couch and from the cabin! To be fair to me, I will say that I have been pricing them for the past year or so with an eye to upgrade and the President's Day sale at Dell brought the price down considerably from where I had previously been looking. The DVD burner could have been a faster model, but everything else is a giant leap forward. The 4 gigs of memory ought to make Adobe Creative Suite 3 happy!

Still, it is quite a bit of work to extract my life from one laptop and settle it within another.

A GREEN car. A GREEN front door. A GREEN phone. A GREEN laptop. All I need is a GREEN camera and I shall have color peace in all phases of my daily life!