Finally, a happy post!!!

WARNING: This post may contain mild profanity. And yet another note: I started this post yesterday before my dad took away the computer.
So, my dad found out about my evil plan to use his computer. When he went to his computer, he found a Ravelry forum thread. And we all know I'm the only one who knows what Ravelry even is. So he gets mad at me and starts treating me like I'm some sort of robot which makes me burst into tears. And then we come to a realization that there was too much crap on this computer. And that there are two options for us; to return the thing to Best Buy and get a desktop or to uninstall all the crap. I liked the desktop idea better, but there was that one concern I wasn't allowed to express. I watch a ton of YouTube videos, and most of them aren't G-rated, but not inappropriate either. It's along the lines of profanity and mild cartoon violence (like, maybe Elmo Kills Barney). The problem is, the computer would be in the living room, where Sam constantly lurks. And he'll probably pick up the bad words, like once when Bethany and I watched a potty-mouthed video and then later said "fuck" at the dinner table. Yeah. Not pretty. But there are risks to fixing a computer, so I went with taking it back to Best Buy. It was a pretty tough sacrifice.


But my dad comes back from Best Buy, with the netbook, due to the 14 day return policy (we bought it before leaving for Europe). So we start bad-mouthing Best Buy with names such as "Worst Buy" and in my head, I thought out "Best Shit", as we get the baby dinosaur out and start to uninstall like crazy. Worse yet, some of the apps (even those that don't belong in the preloaded crap category) could not be uninstalled. But we got rid of more than half of it. And then there was the shocking discovery


The shocking discovery is that the preloaded crap is only there so that the manufacturers can make money out of the PC (which here stands for preloaded crap). And what's even more wackier, is that the CEO of Asus has the same name as my cousin Jerry, both of whom have interesting ways of making money.


So we've literally uninstalled half the crap, and it's better and faster without it. Ravelry only took a nanosecond to load. I think it works...at least for now.


And here to celebrate with me, is none other than Elmo, whom I finished right before all of this started. Time to Go to Work!!!

I cast on after writing the Rant a couple days ago, and finished yesterday while watching TV. It's for my mom to give Sam baths with, but we're not telling him that.