Bank Holiday

In my experience, Bank Holidays are usually spent going to some big commercial place that the rest of the world has also decided to go to.

Today was no exception. We went to PC world. It took us 40 mins to get out of the car park. It reminded me of a game my sister has that has loads of plastic cars and trucks on a grid, and you have to slide them around until you get the little red car out. I can't remember what the game is called.
I always used to cheat by making the cars to 3 point turns in impossibly small spaces.
According to the rules, you're only meant to make them go backwards and forewards, but that's not very lifelike, is it?!

Anyway, PC World.

I'm planning to get a laptop. A Notebook actually. I haven't yet worked out the difference yet (I phoned Mike, who helpfully said that he thought notebooks might be slightly smaller), but I prefer the name 'Notebook'. It sounds a lot more personal. But then people like my mother think I'm talking about a few hundred spiral bound lined A5 pages. So it's probably better to stick to the word 'laptop'.

There are millions of computers in PC World. I was a slightly frustrating person to be finding a computer for, because when I was asked what I wanted it to do, I kept saying things like 'play music' and 'watch DVDs' and 'word process' (hey...may as well...on the off chance that I actually decide to do some work on it).
Apparently all computers do those things.
So, instinctively, the next thing I'd look at is the colour, but I couldn't exactly say that, could I?! It would have made me look shallow, which we all know I'm not...

Anyway. After getting out of the car park and getting home, I did some research, and I've found out that there are some computers that will play music and DVDs without you having to turn them on completely. So they act like a CD player without you having to wait for all the other computery stuff to load up.

Cool, huh?

I am coming up with slightly more specific criteria. Progress.


I don't know whether I should actually admit to something like this, but this afternoon, I actually spent more time researching laptop bags than the actual laptops.
To be honest though, it's easier to see a difference between the bags than between the laptops.


But looking back on today, I think it might have been more worthwhile going to Ikea. I mean, it's impossible to leave Ikea without buying anything (even if the things are a cactus and a hotdog) so at least we wouldn't have come home empty handed.