Things to Do When You Have Your Computer

I was without my laptop for a WHOLE WEEK. I took it in last Tuesday, and didn't get it back until this Tuesday. You may mock, but when you are unemployed, the Internet can sometimes be your link to the outside world while all your friends are busy being employed. Sometimes they don't want to chat with you online while their at work (what is that all about, employed friends???). K was nice enough to allow me to use her laptop (with strict guidelines so I didn't break it... so little faith, I tell you) during that time, but it just wasn't the same. It was like staying in some one's guest room. Nothing was where I normally kept it, and some things I wished I had brought with me (saved to a disk or something before turning my computer over). It was more complicated to check my email, I couldn't play with my pictures for my blog, and I couldn't pull up key job search tracking documents I had in my handy dandy laptop. Now life is so much better. It's all fresh and shiny and new. Here are the top ten things I can do with my baby, er laptop, now that it is back home.

1. Download the pictures of my battle wounds from falling down extra scrapy wood stairs face first onto extra firm cement so I can blog about it.
2. Download the weekly free tracks from Amazon if I so choose (I usually don't, but sometimes there is a treasure).
3. Check up on all my blog feeds.
4. Instant Message K on MyFace when she is in her room and I am in mine. Communication is key to strong friendships.
5. Watch the episodes (mostly finales) I missed of Castle, Cupid (I can't believe they cancelled it!), Harper's Island, Lie to Me, Dollhouse, and Fringe online. Be quiet, that's only 6. The other ones have already had their season finales.
6. Check the 2009 Fall Schedule and figure out which new shows are going to redeem the fact that they CANCELLED Pushing Daisies, Eli Stone, and Samantha Who. What is wrong with them? I will tell you one thing: Trauma is bound to be pointless. Has NBC forgotten they just barely got rid of the long dying ER? Now they need to replace it with another hospital ER show, because there are so few out there? Blech.
7. Clean out my email. Because I'm in a purging mood.
8. Check my New Year's Resolution to see how badly I failed. I had huge goals this year, so I"m sure I"m failing big. But the thing with goals is that you can't just give up and say you failed because you dropped the ball. You have to pick it back up and keep trying. So all you anti-resolution people just need to know that you are going at it wrong, and I am going at it right. Don't you feel educated now?
9. Learn to do more things on my computer. My favorite IT guy told me about it as his contribution to my job search. I can download a trial version or play with the online test drive. I know there are little things I can do with these programs I have never tried. Woohoo! I'm home-schoolin'.
10. Go Hunting for free books!

Oh, the joys that are to be had!