things are a'changing..

hello blog friends of the world.

this weekend was totally awesome. full of birthdays, bar crawls, the river, and oversized CGI monsters. i even braved another trip out to short pump to buy a wedding present and tempting myself to buy things i officially cannot afford.

i had two interesting life developments on friday.

first off, the good news. the long-awaited promotion that was promised me when i was hired is now official. starting next monday, i will be officially transitioned over to account work and off the front desk. this is great news for me as i'll be able to dive back into challenging work, but bad news for my internet surfing habits. there will be less time to read your blogs and more time for tearing my hair out over client deadlines. i'm very excited to get back into action, so it is a definite welcome change for my life. there is a definite "trial by fire" factor when you join an account team, so i'm trying to get mentally geared up for the craziness that is about to ensue.

secondly, and maybe not as life-changing, but still a BIG DEAL... i think i'm making the switch from PC to MAC. now, it's not THAT big of a change. i have been working on a mac at work for years now, so i'm relatively comfortable with working with one. i got a call from the friendly customer service folks at hewlett-packard who informed me that my broken laptop is, in fact, NOT under warranty and i will need to pay them $732 to fix it. now, i don't know about you guys, but that price seems a bit steep to me, don't you? anyway, i told them to just send it back. my laptop wasn't in that great of shape to begin with (see: drunken 27th birthday dance party and the approximately 5-foot fall it took), so i think i'd rather put $732 towards the purchase of a new computer.

that said, if i do make the long-anticipated switch to mac, i need to make the most important decision obviously - notebook or desktop?

i'm agonizing over this because my previous life as a touring musician made a laptop absolutely necessary, but now that i'm working full-time and not hitting the road in the foreseeable future, i think i could get one of those sweet sweet iMacs, save a bunch of money in the process, and get a stronger, better, faster computer. mac's laptops, while sleek and sexy, leave a lot to be desired in two important areas - hard drive storage space and MONITOR SIZE. nothing drives me more crazy than a small screen and a cluttered desktop. to get the minimum monitor size i could live with, i'd have to upgrade to a macbook pro, already taking me well above the $2000 mark, which i don't really have to spend.

how do you ask yourself how portable you are going to need to be over the next 2 years? i have no idea! currently the only foreseeable need i have for portability stems from my interest in music. i'm djing a wedding in two weeks and will need a computer there. also, if i ever got around to writing music again, i might see a need to have a laptop to play samples and stuff. but again, with the exception of this wedding, it's all hypothetical. and if worse comes to worse, my work has a bunch of macs and i could borrow a laptop for a few days if i really needed one.

i'm leaning towards sucking it up, chaining myself to my desk, and accepting the fact that i'm just not the sitting-on-my-laptop-at-starbucks kinda dude anyway.. and getting one of those beautiful imacs.



hello, beautiful.