Well, this is, um…bizarre. My mom got a new computer (if you’re one of the people I talk to online, and you haven’t seen me the last couple days…that’s why). Its kinda cool, cause its like, the super latest damn-near-everything, and you can set it up so everyone who might use the comp can have everything precisely the way they want it without pissing everyone else off — case in point, the TV Whore motif currently running on my old-as-balls comp across the room, which I’m enjoying, would drive my mother insane. Also of the coolness? Came with a CD-RW drive. Shibby-schweet.

However, the massive balls-sucking kicks in when you realize that the CD-RW drive is not in addition to, but rather instead of a zip drive. Yes, I know, you can put more info on a CD, and blah blah fucking blah. Guess what, tho, kids? This is the only computer in the house that will actually connect to the internet. All my files (read, my websites, music files, and anything that I might actually want to burn onto a CD) are either on my hand-me-down comp, or sitting on zip disks. Say it with me now, folks — OW. >.< This is what's called "lack of planning." I mean, really, explain to me how anyone who's upgrading to a new computer is supposed to get their new files from the old one to the new one with no zip drive. Newsflash, Gateway, not everything will fit on a floppy.

Then again…maybe that’s the point.