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I finally upgraded my computer and brought it into the future. It is now running a sleek and rock-solid operating system to rival all operating systems. It is so cool. I just don't know where to start. So I won't.

I will say, on the other hand, that Windows sucks as much big donkey dick as it can. I was working on H's PC to install an additional hard drive, a replacement DVD/CD-R/RW drive, and some more RAM, and let's just say that one out of three ain't bad. The hard drive doesn't have anywhere to live. There are no more ports on the cables that are in there. So we thought we could get a PCI bridge card to install further IDE devices. No big deal. $40 at CompUSA—which I keep forgetting is over-priced and full of idiots. But nooooooo, Windows 98 gives back a bad ROM error when, after unscrewing myriad screws, and dashing to the bathroom for Band-Aids to cover the cuts received from the hard metal edges of the chassis, and the moans and groans of six unsuccessful restarts, all we have is a new DVD drive, and only half of that because we can't get the software to recognize the new drive. I suspect that we'll have to reinstall the software. The RAM, the easiest thing in a computer to upgrade, wouldn't work. Or at least the PC won't recognize more than 512 MB of it. What. Ever. And fuck the PCI card. I don't even know where to go with that one. Far beyond my expertise, I must say.

Now back to the Mac—25 minutes to take the bottom off of my iMac, swap out the old 10 gigger for a 60 gigger and reassemble. Twenty-five minutes. And then a half an hour to install the OS and necessary software. And then, I get the rest of the day to play while the PC is half-naked sitting on the workbench waiting for someone to come by and put it back together again.

Macs rule.

I was silly enough to write this at 4:24 PM