Day 41: Home, Home on the Page

My nightmare is over. I just went into my purse in search of my wallet and what did I find but my lime green blog ideas notebook! Not quite as weird as finding it in the silverware drawer or with the cleaning supplies, but definitely not its usual place. Perhaps this is one small indication of the fact that my whole routine has come a bit unglued. You see, I've switched from a PC to a Mac. I guess those television ads are working, because I really don't want to be the overweight, bespectacled, nerdy guy any longer. Overweight and bespectacled, fine. But in honor of my 50th birthday, I'm crossing the words nerdy and guy off my self-improvement list.

My PC is still up and running, albeit slower and slower, because there are a lot of things I don't yet know how to do on the Mac (like upload a photo onto my blog). The PC still sits in the place of honor on my desk, while the Mac is on the kitchen table. I'm floating between the two. My calendar and to-do lists and favorite pens and spectacles are in different places. Olivia the dog doesn't know where the heck to lie down (usually she sleeps in my office because that's where I am).

Among the many benefits of a new computer, however, is that I've changed my home page, which until now has been AOL since that's how I access my e-mail. The problem with AOL is that they're sneaky with their headlines and I end up spending an extraordinary amount of time reading about stuff that ultimately I'm not all that interested in. Which actress is the new face of Frigidaire? Who? Who? I have to know! Well, now I do, and all I'll tell you is that she's married to Ben Affleck and has amazing dimples. Beats me why she'd want to be the face of a trash compactor, though.

So I've changed my home page to CNN in the hopes of starting off my day on a slightly more highbrow note. I go on Safari (Internet Explorer for all you overweight, bespectacled, nerdy guys), up comes CNN, and what's the first thing I see but a report on escaping from a sinking car! My fear factor! This was meant to be.

Of course, I still sign in to AOL to get my mail rather than using the Mac's mail feature; there are just so many new things I can take. I see that AOL boasts the same sinking car news. Uh-oh... Maybe I should consider NPR? So I head over there and I find Who is Hobodarkseid? And Why Should You Care? and Spider Wranglers Weave One-of-a-Kind Tapestry and the NPR Song of the Day.

Home at last.