Creeeek Technology

When I was in 3rd or 4th grade my family got our first computer, it was a Gateway and it came in a big cow print box. I loved the box and wanted to play in it, more than the computer...at first. My best friend already had a computer as did most of my other friends. I can honestly say that we were probably the last to jump on that bandwagon.

Fun!!!!!!!

My parents own rental properties and my Dad used the Gateway to balance bills and stuff. I used the computer to make my 10th birthday party invitations and they were pretty ballin'. Yeah I mean ballin'. It was a luau theme at my Grandpa's pool. I always felt really lucky that my birthday was in the summer so I could have a pool party, but making the guest list always stressed me out. Guest lists still stress me out, because I want all of my friends there but not all of my friends get along and I don't want to hurt anyone's feelings and I have a fear of people not talking to me once the party gets started. So note I don't throw a lot of parties, because something stupid always happens. Yet when I was young(er) I had a birthday party every year until I was at least 12, and then I decided they were uncool.

Gateway back to the Gateway
Other things I used the Gateway for: Oregon Trail: Big fun! Once at school I won a prize for getting most of my family there alive. I got fifty cents to get a soda and I felt really cool. Cards: As I stated above and then tangented off, I made really awesome greeting cards on that computer. Encarta: So we all know Encarta was an encyclopedia of sorts, but did you know that it also featured A GAME! Yes Encarta included a game and I was really great at that too.  There was also a jewel thief game that my family still talks about how awesome it was, but we can't seem to find anything else like it, a pirate game that our cousins from up north really enjoyed and a bunch of other really educational games that I don't remember much about.

One last note about the Gateway, I mentioned that my Dad used it for banking stuff but I forgot to say that we did not have the internet until I was in High School. So even though I was kick ass at Oregon Trail I couldn't talk to my friends on MSN. Major loss of cool points.

Whenever I was in 8th grade my Mom got a job at the school, which was awesome. She did a lot of really cool things. One thing she did that was sort of cool but not as cool as I wanted it to be was she bought me a computer for my eighth grade graduation. She got a discount on Apple products and I was super excited because I thought I was about to get a super cool pick computer like Lizzie MacGuire had.

Except I didn't.

I got a boring white laptop that has major issues, but still sort of works now.

Boring.

The only thing I remember about this computer was it's super awesome encyclopedia. I had a fascination with them when I was younger I guess.

I got a computer that I was not grateful for when I was in eighth grade and so did my little brother.

When he graduated eighth grade he got a desktop computer and that was when Myspace started.

My mom had a Myspace before me, she is that awesome. My Mom, brother and I all argued over computer time, it was horrible. So finally during my senior year of High School I got my first laptop that I loved.

It was a Sony Viao, no frills, except for the diamonds that I put on it and then peeled off after my gay community college friends made fun of them. It was so perfect, I could do whatever I wanted with it, because it was mine and finally after having 3 different computers in my life I had one that was mine and I understood it .



It was love and then as with most relationships things start to go downhill. A cat popped the k key off, the left click stopped working, I am pretty sure if the Viao was a whore it would have every std known to mankind, and I thought I was stuck with it until I could afford a new one on my own.

My parents saved me like they always do.

On my 21st birthday they bring over a bottle of my Dad's homemade wine and a curiously heavy box wrapped in wrapping paper that I am pretty sure I bought. Yes, I had been complaining to my Mom about how the mouse jumped around on my Viao, but I never expected A NEW BLUE GATEWAY.

"You probably won't like the color."  My Mom says to me as I unwrap my new BLUE Gateway.

"Well I'll take it if she doesn't." My Dad says.

"You're right, I don't like the color, but I love it!" I say about my new blue Gateway.

I still have my Viao and I still use it because it has all of my music and pictures on it when I opened it up earlier this evening I could have sworn I heard it go creeek.

I am now typing on my slightly less new blue Gateway and I love it, everything works as of right now and I am doing my best to keep it that way. I still wish it was a pink Gateway though, I guess one day if I ever buy my own computer, it will be pink.

Did I mention this computer has a webcam? No...Well it does!