I have a new computer

[redbird]

The new computer is a Windows desktop machine. It will be replacing a Mac. I suspect I am going to be discovering all sorts of interesting things about file incompatibilities, especially years of saved email.

There's at least one trip to Microcenter in my future, for speakers, a webcam, and a better keyboard, but that can wait a day or three. Tomorrow's plans involve going to a state legislature committee hearing (to show people care about a bill that will stop Massachusetts police from working for ICE or other federal agencies unless the feds pay for it. (Yes, it would be better to stop it altogether, but this might be easier to get through, and might have the same effect.) That's another political thing I've never done before, but the ACLU wants people there, I don't have conflicting plans, and the state house is now "take the T to Park Street" instead of a schlep to Albany.

Whether I shop for hardware tomorrow will depend on a combination of how I feel by then, and how annoyed I am by this keyboard in another twelve hours.

Comments

[bibliofile]

Congrats on the recent-edition hardware. May the stuff of Microsoft not drive you too nuts.

Welcome to the joys of living in the capital city of your state: living within easy not-driving distance of The Capitol and all the excitement thereof.

[redbird]

I've been to just outside the State House for a rally, just after the election, but this is the first time I've been inside. I think the only state capital building I'd been to before I moved here was in Madison, where I've used it as a shortcut across the square, as well as going in to see the carvings (and joining in a protest outside).