Happy Turkey day!!!

[ellen_datlow]

It's one of my favorite holidays because I (perhaps in the minority among friends with more sophisticated palates) LOVE turkey and all the trimmings. Although my favorite stuffing using chestnuts, sausage and stuff like that rather than a lot of bread-like substances. I'm going over to my friend Claire's (great cook) for the big meal. She's teaching her niece to roast a turkey. Someone else is bringing dessert and I'm bringing wine and cheese.

Things I'm thankful for:

the whole family

Dinah
and

Bella

friends who I love
work that I love
Good health which I cherish
The opportunities to travel all over the world
An apartment rental that is cozy and homey and relatively reasonably priced in an expensive city
New York which I love

On the whole a very good life.

Comments

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

I went over to Best Buy to look at the Asus eeepc but they don't have them yet. I may try J&R later--if I like the feel of the keyboard and can see the screen well enough to use for traveling, I'll buy one.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Mm, I wanna see 'em - if only to assure myself that my ten-year-old EasyMate is still superior to these newfangled things. Charlie Stross was sounding quite excited by his Asus last week...

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

Well lucky I called J&R because they don't have it on display which means I'm not buying one until someone does...

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

So I went up to RSC to look at the thing and the salesman was awful. Told me that the Linex os would make it impossible to transfer word files back and forth (which my computer expert friend later told me is bullshit). But I decided against it anyway because the keyboard it really too small for me to use it without lots of typos. The screen I could probably live with. On the way out of the store, I saw the smallest Lenovo (formerly IBM) which is obviously an upgrade of my IBM 240x which I've loved for its lightweight but is sorely out of date. So...I went home and called the wonderful/helpful Jim Freund and Barbara Krasnoff and asked what they thought. We all checked the Lenovo site and the machine was on sale until Sunday. After checking the x61 and x61S I decided on the latter, which is several ounces lighter than the X61. It should be 2.73 pounds with the 4 cell standard battery. I've opted for more memory and a more power on the hard drive and Vista Biz, apparently much better than Vista home, which everyone says sucks. I should get the new machine in about 3 weeks or less. Whoopie!!!!