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The Second Precious

Wonder of wonders, I ordered my second Mac yesterday, less than a month after I got my first one! When it rains it pours I think they say. After two years of wanting them quite badly I finally get not one but two of them! This one is being paid for by work, and then I will apply my overtime hours to pay it off. Not a bad deal if you ask me.

So anyway, here is what I got:

12” PowerBook with SuperDrive

• 1ghz G4 Processor
• 256mb Ram (we will purchase another 512mb from someone else. Apple RAM is way overpriced)
• Upgraded to 80gb Hard Drive
• Airport Extreme added on
• Bluetooth
• Superdrive (DVD Burner)
• And of course all of the great pro-apps and software that comes with it.

I also got a few extras:

• Logitech MX500 mouse (I love my MX700, but didn’t want to lug around the base station and the mouse, so I figured just a cord would be easier, but other than that it is identical)
• Epson C84 Printer (free with rebate, hooray!)
• Lacie 160gb external Firewire hard drive

And later this week we will be purchasing a Minolta DiMage Z1 camera, 256 mb Memory card, the extra RAM for the PowerBook, and a Wireless Router for home so I can post to my blog from the toilet if I want to. Or the couch, if you prefer a not-so-graphic scenario. :)

So this has turned out to be a very nice Christmas as far as material possessions goes… But I’m not complaining! We didn’t have much of a Christmas last year because of money problems, so it’s nice to have some nice things under the imaginary tree this year, even if we will be paying it all off until next summer.

And I made sure to pay the extra $20 to get the 2-3 day shipping this time, so I don’t have a nervous breakdown waiting for the FedEx man to get here.

But yeah, no Christmas tree for us, with a huge male doberman in the house most of the day we don’t want him to get the wrong idea and start marking his territory on the new tree that just sprouted out of the floor in his room.