Cruisin' At The Speed of Light!!!

 Wow! I am flying this morning! We rolled down the road to Tucson yesterday morning, and spent a nice day down there. I sat on the couch most of the day, playing on my tablet. The Daughter, Doodad and the Wife hung out, and went shopping for a bit in the later afternoon. The SIL and Youngest spent about 6-7 hours building my new computer. By the time my input was needed, it was up and running. Then we re-boxed it to send it home with us last night. I spent about an hour transferring some programs to my external hard drive, to copy over to the new computer, but most I will probably just re-download and set-up.

This morning I got up about 6am (couldn't sleep) and started in on the old computer - unhooking everything and moving out of the way. Brought int he new computer, and the new monitor I bought. Started making sure I knew what cords were getting plugged into what ports, when I got to the monitor. First off, I couldn't find the screws that hold the monitor to the stand. Then I realized, they only sent a VGA cord, not an HDMI or Display Port, as is needed for the new computer. I start looking online at BestBuy and WallyWorld. nobody has the basic adapter in stock, and it is several days away - even if I order from Amazon. I decide to go to BestBuy when they open to see what they do have in stock. It's only 7a, and the3 website says they don't open until 11am (really? That late?).

I lay back down, thinking maybe a short snooze at this point, but the Middle Son walks in. I get up to talk with him, as he wanted to see if I was having problems. I was, so I explained. He mentioned a fix around the adapter issue, so we ran up to WallyWorld (which opens at 6am - so stick it BestBuy) and bought 2 HDMI to HDMI cables (one for each monitor - I'll eb running dual soon). Got home, started wire connections for the monitor, realized I only have 1 HDMI slot on the computer, so will need to return the one (or keep for back-up) and get a HDMI to DP connector instead, but no rush, as long as I have A monitor. Finished all the wiring, and stared it up.... and she runs fast! My previous computer was 7-10 years old, and this one has one of the upper CPUs and graphics card available. Working on loading my game(s) so haven't tried that out just yet, but just regular use with Chrome is awesome! New monitor clarity is amazing.

So most of my day is going to be working on setting things up on this new computer. I already loaded the software, etc, I need for work, so am ready to check in tomorrow, thought not sure still if there is any work to be done.

PeacE