This is what victory looks like.

[valis2]

I am currently running:

*Photoshop Elements, with 160 pictures open
*Firefox, with 29 tabs open
*IE, with 2 tabs open
*Trillian, 2 chat tabs open
*TurboLister (an eBay program)
*3 folders are open with multiple files
*Semagic is running
*Word is open with a 233 page document, and another blank document
*Filezilla is open and connected to the web

And I am using 0-2% of the processer. OMG I LOVE YOU, COMPUTER

In other news, the cough is being stubborn. It's still not quite gone.

In other other news, I have gotten a ton of stuff done on the eBay end of things, and I've added a bunch of new items to the website. And I've shipped out 21 packages this week.

In other other other news, I almost had my first sale on my website!! Yay! But then the website had an error and couldn't process the order. Boo. But it's all worked out now. I'll just have to lure the customer back again. Thankfully, it's someone I know and I'm sure it will happen.

I'm looking forward to three more days of being at home, recovering, and working hard on my website and eBay stuff. I'm making a lot of progress!

Comments

[mcsheplovers.livejournal.com]

Yay to feeling a bit better! That cough will hang in there for awhile longer, just be patient. It *will* end!
Yay to all the success with the computer stuff that I have no idea about---but yay just the same!
Enjoy your weekend!

[valis2.livejournal.com]

It's such a stubborn cough! It just doesn't want to let go. Grr. I'm glad to know there's a light at the end of the tunnel, though!

And yes, hooray computer!! I love it!

Hope you have a great weekend, too!

[lindahoyland.livejournal.com]

I fear I am green with envy, though I know I'm lucky my 7 year old PC still works. I hope your cough is soon better.

[valis2.livejournal.com]

My 7 year old PC still worked, too, but it was time for an upgrade. I love the fact that everything I use is now faster and easier, and I love Windows 7.

Computers are getting cheaper and more awesome. I know that I just helped my friends get one for about $1000, and it runs Windows 7 and has a fair amount of power. I went for "ridiculously overpowerful" in an effort to stave off buying another computer for a while. I hope to get 7 years out of this one, too!

And thanks, I hope that my cough disappears soon, too. :)

[todayiamadaisy]

Computer envy. :-)

I had a persistent cough for about four months this winter. I eventually knocked it off with twice-daily garlic pills. (Either that, or it was going anyway.) They might be worth a try if you haven't already.

[valis2.livejournal.com]

hee! This computer is ridiculously powerful and I adore it. *snuggles the computer*

I am at the point where I really dislike garlic, though. Strangely enough, it's become rather ubiquitous in American cooking at restaurants, and garlic mashed potatoes are as common as regular mashed potatoes. It's kind of weird and garlic has started to upset my stomach a little, so I've backed off. Not sure about garlic pills, though. Still, this is just a lingering cough from a throat issue, and it's because I still have...um...crud in my throat. Once the crud is gone, I think I'll be fine. *crosses fingers*

[hardboiledbaby]

Victory, it is sweet. :)

[greenpear.livejournal.com]

Isn't it nice to have a computer that can handle all that?

But why 29 tabs at one time?¿?

[ook.livejournal.com]

I usually have 60 or so tabs open in three different browsers at one time. I keep four tabs open for four different email accounts and I repeatedly check a lot of sites every day, plus I have a number of sites open for research and various things that I need to do during the week.

Today I finally closed the tabs for local county absentee voting and for a lighting company because I just mailed in my absentee ballot request and finally phoned the lighting co. and ordered some parts for a lamp. :)

[greenpear.livejournal.com]

I use my "Read It Later" function for things like that. The OCD in me doesn't allow for me to keep that much open at one time...

[valis2.livejournal.com]

Wow, you and I are so similar in this regard--I keep the tab open until I've resolved the issue. If I just bookmark it and set it aside, I completely forget about it. *nodnod*

[valis2.livejournal.com]

Tabs I always have open:

*Yahoo email
*Gmail
*eBay summary page
*ArtFire
*Etsy summary page
*LJ fpage
*JF fpage
*Facebook newsfeed
*eBay clothing search page
*Heartomatic (Etsy stats)
*Google Reader
*Google Analytics
*Google Documents
*Website server email
*AO3 works page
*My blog dashboard
*Facebook page feed (that I'm monitoring)
*My website dashboard

Plus all of the pages I need to comment on. I open up tabs for every LJ entry I want to read further/comment on, and I open up tabs for Etsy forum topics and for Etsy articles I want to look at. Sometimes I have up to 100 tabs open.

That's nothing compared to work, where I can have up to 250, sometimes 300 tabs open, depending on what I'm doing.

And yeah, I love this computer! I can't believe how easy everything is now.

[ook.livejournal.com]

*waves*

Why do you need to have 160 images open at one time? :)

[valis2.livejournal.com]

So glad you asked! *grins* I used to scan products for my eBay listings, but I'm shifting to taking photos.

So for this batch, I had front and back images for some products, plus scale photos (which will only happen once, because I'm not going to retake those each time, but since these are the first...). So most of the products had 2-3 images.

Then, as I was in the process, I realized that some of the scale photos that I'd previously taken were larger than I needed (600 pixels wide, and I'd rather them be smaller so it's easier to load for people) so I opened all 98 of the current scale pics from my website products, and resized them to 300 pixels, and so at this point I had 160 images open.

Usually, though, it's only about 50-60. Still, except for opening them (which was sooo much faster than my old machine), the computer seemed bored with the process. lol!!

[dark-cygnet.livejournal.com]

SHOW-OFF! ::smooches you::

[valis2.livejournal.com]

*roars in happiness* :) *lionsmooches*

[drusillas-rain.livejournal.com]

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*way too incoherent this morning for complex language stuff*

[valis2.livejournal.com]

*giant hugs*

*sends over the virtual coffee*

[cordeliadelayne]

\o/

[valis2.livejournal.com]

squee! *huggles the computer*

[valis2.livejournal.com]

hee!! Thank you, Grant! lol.

[thedoingofit.livejournal.com]

And I am using 0-2% of the processer. OMG I LOVE YOU, COMPUTER
THIS WAS THE VERY BEST THING ABOUT MY NEW COMPUTER. :DDD Glad you're enjoying yours! :o)

[valis2.livejournal.com]

ISN'T IT FANTASTIC?!! I love this thing to bits. LOVE IT. BITS. YES.

Glad you love yours too!!! squee!!