Week Ending 5/21

 Let's see... what interesting happened last week?

Well, my new laptop arrived. My old one had been making uncomfortable grinding noises for a while and Juno agreed that a laptop was an essential tool for me. It is, after all, my window into the world these days. So we ordered me a new one... which had to be built and eventually shipped. 

It was kind of exciting because, according to FedEx tracking, this little machine was started out on Chongqing, China (the largest city in the world, on a technicality, apparently). For what Google shows me, it looks like Chongqing has some neat tourist-y things to visit... a cool museum, etc. After leaving Chongqing, my laptop eventually arrived in Shanghai, where FedEx announced it was in an "Operational Delay." I'm guessing that means Customs.

On Wednesday morning, it was still in Operational Delay in Shanghai according to FedEx. On Wednesday afternoon, it was in my hands... leading me to suspect the tracking information wasn't 100% accurate. 

I'd like to say getting my new laptop was as fun as watching it's journey across the world. Unfortunately, it wasn't. Let me just say, I hate Windows 11 and I hate OneDrive. I don't want to store my files on the Cloud and my WiFi really isn't robust enough for that anyway. It took days, lots of swearing and calls to HP Customer Service, Microsoft Customer Service (which doesn't exist btw) and EA Customer Service (they're the game company that makes the Sims) before I got it in some semblance of working order. Needless to say, that really wore me out and I'm still recovering. 

Still, new laptop and which is more well traveled than I am and which I'm still figuring out. Should be fun.

Onward