computers, argh

My computer died today. Took it to Best Buy to get data off hard drive, and bought new laptop, which I'd meant to do for a while. Guess life got tired of me waiting. *sigh*

Will see if I can get laptop set up and allowed access to Upstairs Neighbors' wireless network tonight. Wish me luck?

victory!

I have the laptop set up and connected to the internet! Yay! (Thank you, Upstairs Neighbor R, for writing out and leaving me the network security key last time you reconfigured your router and accidentally kicked me off your network access list. I must remember to write you a note explaining that the new computer on your network is not an interloper but just me by a different name -- Shadowfall instead of Thief-of-Always.)

Unfortunately, it turns out I forgot to unplug the little USB port connector/adapter thingy that lets my wireless mouse talk to a computer, so I am stuck using the touchpad that comes with the laptop. Also, my keyboard turns out to be one of the last old-style ones made, with the round plug instead of a USB plug, so I can't use it either and am stuck using the laptop's own keyboard. I hate laptop keyboards and touchpads. They are at a horrible angle and hurt my wrists something awful after a few minutes. Also, I have no scroll wheel. That is TRAGIC.

But still, computer! With internet access! And presumably a word processing program, somewhere, since the Office download claims it did its thing successfully.

I am not keen on this Windows 8 touchscreen nonsense, and went to the old layout as fast as humanly possible, because dude, this is a computer, not a phone. I don't want my greasy fingers all over my nice clean screen.

I also don't have any of my bookmarks, because they are trapped on my old hard drive until Tuesday at the earliest, more likely Wednesday or Thursday. Best Buy is slightly backlogged on data transfer requests right now, so it will take them a while to retrieve my files and put them onto my external backup hard drive. (Yes, I know I should have been backing up ALL my data all along, not just a few story files. I will be better about that in future.) But I think I can manage without bookmarks for a few days. It may take me a bit more banging around to find some pages I want to check, but eh, I found them in the first place; I can find them again.

And now onward to other sites, such as email and Tumblr and my lesson plan for tomorrow's RE lesson, which ought to be on Google Drive somewhere...

a cry of rage and frustration

Dear Internet,

I downloaded Office 2013, which makes a big fucking deal of how it's always available on all devices and yay OneDrive and what the fuck, I don't care, just give me MS Word ON MY OWN COMPUTER, YOU ASSHOLE PROGRAMMERS!

By which I mean, I have downloaded this thing TWICE and I cannot find hide nor hair of MS Word on my computer, no matter what search terms I use.

Which would seem to defeat the purpose of purchasing and downloading a program suite that explicitly claims to contain MS Word.

So. Anybody out there have any tips for FINDING Word and then for CREATING A GODDAMN DESKTOP ICON SO I DON'T LOSE IT AGAIN?!?!?!

Fucking Microsoft.

And their chat client is continually busy. I have refreshed it three times now and it keeps timing out and telling me to try again later.

Assholes.

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AIPHGPAREIUHP98Q36YQYTPSREIUHEPHIO!!!!!!!!!!!!!