This was another sad and happy day. Sad, because I turned on the old computer for what I hope will be the last time (and then turned it off, also for the last time). Happy, because I think I’ve squeezed every bit of juice out of the old computer that I can. Now all that’s left to do is take out the hard drive and smash it with a hammer and melt it with a blowtorch. That is how you ensure privacy, isn’t it?

I was hoping to find the email settings on the old machine, so that I could copy them and import them into the new one. I didn’t have any luck, so I’ll just live with the fact that I’ve lost the old saved messages (unless I decide to turn it on and off one more time). It would have been easy, I think, if I used Outlook as my email client, but I don’t. I use Thunderbird. I don’t know for sure that Microsoft has anything against Firefox, but I do know they’re pretty territorial.

So all I did while I had the old computer running was scribble the email settings onto a piece of scratch paper, and make a copy of the address book. Then I shut Fidelina down for good, and Olive became my one and only computer forever and ever, until the next big thing comes out to replace her.

It’s a little sad, but pretty happy, too. I’m getting to feel comfortable with the new machine. I’m enjoying the speed and flexibility and all the new gadgets and gizmos. That’s not the reason I changed, but it’s probably a good enough reason to have done so. I’m just grateful for the opportunity.