Almost a heart attack

All the hoopla over the arrival of my new computer almost made me forget that I was supposed to share my life experiences today. That's not good. I did however remember last minute, so here we go. What happened to me today? I got my new computer.

I missed the delivery today as I was at work. I was stalking it through the Fedex.com tracking site. My mother let me know that I didn't have to wait for it to be delivered the next day. That I could just go to the shipping hub and pick it up there. I still don't think she knows that she made me the happiest girl in the world. I went to pick up my package after work. Only briefly stopping at home to collect the door tag. The entire ride home from the Fedex office I was tapping my box as if to make sure it actually existed. Very happy girl. I had my computer at last.

When I made it home I decided on a reward system. I needed to exercise before I devoted far too much time to staring into this beautiful computer screen. I chose to not open my computer until after I gave the dogs a walk. Knowing me if I had decided to open my computer beforehand then it would have been well after dark before I remembered my decision to walk the dogs. So after the dogs were exhausted, I pulled my computer out of the box, opened it and set it up.

Then... nothing happened.

My Start key wasn't working. When I looked for programs, they were nowhere to be found. I thought for sure I was missing something major. Maybe I was just not figuring out how to function with this new Windows 8.1. Worried and stressed that my brand new computer was defected, I decided to pour myself a rather large glass of wine. Next I Google searched solutions on my tablet. I gathered enough info to decide to reset my computer and start afresh. Something that I thought was going to take forever.

It didn't. I went through the process of setting up my computer again and this time success. I almost did victory laps around the house. Only the thought of disrupting my housemates stopped me. It was working. It was responding and I am in love. There are files to be transported and things to be downloaded. Unfortunately, the glass of red wine that calmed my nerves earlier is making it rather hard to focus now. I have to leave the rest of the work of bringing my new computer up to par for tomorrow. Now I must sleep.