I just love the computers that I have. I remember back when I was in high school, and computers were just beginning to become mainstream. I remember when my next-door neighbor's kid, whom was an only child, and whom also had everything money could buy it seemed, first got his Commodore Vic computer. Then in a year or so, he got the Commodore updated computer. I remember sitting back and jealously watching he and others get everything their hearts desired, while I struggled and cut many hours of grass, just to get the new Ozzy Osbourne or AC/DC cassette that was coming out. I remember when I would go to school, and our school began to have the old IBM's and Apple 2's in the business/typing class.

When I got older, and as I began to see everything on tv being advertised as goto https:// whatever, I didn't understand it all, and just hated watching Tv just for those commercials. It was no longer send a SASE to the address below thing, or call this number right now thing. it was starting to always be the https:// thingy, and I hated it. Then in 1999, I ran across a Sony WebTV system, and I decided to buy it for $60.00. A guy that I know told me, I remember, that once I used that, it wouldn't be two weeks till I would be wanting me a computer. I remember telling him "Nah, this is good enough for me." Well he was wrong, because it didn't take two weeks of using that thing. I used it for about just 3 days, and then I was wanting a computer. I finally got a hand-me-down desktop from the guy that I was renting from; then later when he upgraded his desktop, I got the other second hand computer. The first one was a dinasaur 486 tower. it was old, but it worked. And the next one that I got was a Pentium 266 hand-me-down. I used that for a couple years, till I finally moved back to Wisconsin. Unable to take it with me, I suffered without any computer for the next 5 months, from May, '02 to September, '02. Just when I thought that I would never get my computer up here or any other one for that matter, my landlady, who I had had as a landlady years ago when I lived here, discussed with me, and the next thing I knew, we were on our way to WalMart. She agreed to get me a brand new HP desktop computer, and let me pay her back per weekly check. I was so excited. I got that computer, and I was very happy. It died in just under 3 months, and through some serious talks, WalMart was kind enough to replace it for me. And I used that desktop computer from then, which was 2003, until 2006. During that time, I taught myself, through trial and error, how to install hard drives and graphics cards and RAM, and how to format and reformat drives, and how to install Operating Systems.

Well, here I am today, 6 years after making the move back to Wisconsin, and leaving my beloved used desktop computer behind, and I am very grateful to say that I now have a new Dell XPS desktop and 2 brand new Dell laptops, and one brand new Sony Vaio UX380N micro pc.

And what's funny is I absolutely love the computer world now. I love everything about it. What I once despised, I now love. Life really does the flip-flop at times don't it?

Thanks for listening,

Nicholas