Friday, January 2, 2015
Jan. 2nd, 2015 09:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bearshortyI am grateful to my parents for getting me a new laptop. I really am. But Windows 8 really sucks. I now know what everyone was talking about. Windows 7 was perfectly lovely, easy to use and not ugly. Windows 8 is already irritating me quite a bit. I only use the desktop but it wants me to switch to its stupid 'tablet' like interface. And I can't use the start menu like a proper person. And their Skype widget wants me to sink my Skype account with my new Microsoft account I had to create for this computer. I'll try downloading Skype through the internet instead. It is just this one giant hassle. I have to wait for my Microsoft Works Suite to show up - I ordered it last night from University for $30 - one advantage of working for academia - to properly use everything and I need to install all my favorite programs again. I'm sure I'll settle down into this computer but I need time. It is also a bit heavier than my last one, and less wieldy to use on my lap - I rarely use a laptop on a desk. It is not the laptop I would have chosen for myself. I know, I know, gift horse, mouth.
Yesterday, when my Dad took Tanya for her long afternoon nap, Bear and I could finally sit down in front of TV to watch a movie. We wanted to watch "Captain America: Winter Soldier" for a while and haven't had the time. We don't want to watch TV when Tanya can see it - so while we watched "Community" episodes when she was a few months old, now she would move herself and roll over to watch the screen. So no TV for us, which is probably a good thing overall. But no movies for a while. We only got through the first half and then my relatives came over. I finished watching it today in few installments. The first half was a bit too silly and predictable but I did enjoy the second half once the plot point started to be clear. I could predict who the Winter Solider was as soon as Steve Rogers went to his own museum - modern scripts follow such a predictable storytelling patters. But I still enjoyed it overall and I think I want to now go back to "Agents of SHIELD" - I only watched 12 episodes or so. The show is now on Netflix.
When Steve Rogers visited his own museum in the movie, Bear and I had a laugh because Bear works in a place where once a world renowned, very famous scientist just sat in the big auditorium all by himself and watched a movie about himself.
Yesterday, when my Dad took Tanya for her long afternoon nap, Bear and I could finally sit down in front of TV to watch a movie. We wanted to watch "Captain America: Winter Soldier" for a while and haven't had the time. We don't want to watch TV when Tanya can see it - so while we watched "Community" episodes when she was a few months old, now she would move herself and roll over to watch the screen. So no TV for us, which is probably a good thing overall. But no movies for a while. We only got through the first half and then my relatives came over. I finished watching it today in few installments. The first half was a bit too silly and predictable but I did enjoy the second half once the plot point started to be clear. I could predict who the Winter Solider was as soon as Steve Rogers went to his own museum - modern scripts follow such a predictable storytelling patters. But I still enjoyed it overall and I think I want to now go back to "Agents of SHIELD" - I only watched 12 episodes or so. The show is now on Netflix.
When Steve Rogers visited his own museum in the movie, Bear and I had a laugh because Bear works in a place where once a world renowned, very famous scientist just sat in the big auditorium all by himself and watched a movie about himself.