Scanner + Polaroids = HAPPY!!!

Hooray! Got my scanner working! Actually, it's a long, drawn out saga of getting Mini (my mac) and Pinky (my pc netbook) and then my interwebs and wifi working. All of this techno crap because of Big Red, my (actually quite svelte) red Sony Reader. Couldn't work the reader without a computer, because they stopped letting us do stuff like this at work ;( This meant I had to go out and actually *gasp* get my own computer!!!! Me! Whose most technologically advanced gee-gaw was a $15 Virgin prepaid cell phone!! I had successfully avoided getting dragged into the computer age (actually, successfully avoided spending my own money on a computer) and I *had* to get one, all because of a certain hot-tempered red minx (oh, you sony reader, you!)

If you're forced by circumstances (and lust for ebooks) to get a computer, what do you do? You get a Mac (Mini), of course! If I'm going to have to get my own damn computer, then I'm at least going to get a damn Mac, goddammit! But guess what? Sony's eBookstore program DOESN'T WORK WITH MACS!!!! AAAAAAAAARRRRGHHH!!! So what's a girl to do? Get a netbook of course (on sale for $250 at J&R... but in the unfortunate color pink... which I have gotten used to.) So, Mini will be for playing music, watching movies, futzing with pics and doing all those other Mac-y things while Pinky will be my companion to go to school (and download ebooks).

... Wait.

... I DON'T HAVE TEH INTERNETS!!!! OH NOEZ!!!!!!!!

So, thus continues the saga of getting internets and wifis (which, thanks to my buddy Fabio finally works - not the intenets, which is thanks to the evil and demon tenticular Verizon but the wifis). Wifi works, Mini and Pinky are all set to go, all I needed was a USB cord and my itty bitty HP all in one scanner/printer/copier would be online. USB cord was gotten last night at good ol' J&R and WE HAVE LIFTOFF!!!

Next post - first scanned polaroids (cue 2001 Space Odyssey music). That is, after the one I just posted in this post :)