New Computer!

So my computer for the last 4 years is finally on its way out.  It's been a long, slow, painful process, but it has finally happened.  It works well enough to turn on and do minimal functions as long as you have the patience for it to potentially restart, take a small life time to open whatever you're looking for, and also take FOREVER to start.  I've never been an apple fan, but I've decided to go by way of the MacBook Air for this computer because I've played the PC game and remained unimpressed.  I had the iphone for a while and while it was a good phone, it was also unimpressive.  Though it was about the only phone that I managed to not completely destroy, fry, or drown.  I think that was due to the fact that I was terrified of crushing it so I kept it in a full case the entire time.  I destroyed a Lifeproof case, otter box, and another off brand version of the otter box.  Red ended up giving me the Otterbox for his work phone because I had successfully destroyed everything else and didn't want to buy yet another case.  When it was time to upgrade though I switched back to the world of Android and got the Samsung Galaxy S4.  I love the screen size, how easy it is to use, how I can customize nearly everything, and just the way the phone works in general.  The one thing I miss about the iphone was the way the voicemail worked.  Now when I have a voicemail I have to wait until it is done having me re-save old messages before I can listen to my newest message.  Quite annoying.  But that's the end of the list of things I miss really.

Now as for the computer switch.  I have never had a mac of any form but I have always heard good things about them and thus far they seem to be indestructible.  I know some of my friends that have had them for 5 years with zero problems.  I have been incredibly hard pressed to find a friend with a PC that went longer than 2 years without a problem.  My last computer, the one that I just replaced, lasted 4 years but the last few months have been very irritating.  It would restart multiple times in a row, decide that it would want to update every time I would put it to sleep, and then take a small lifetime to start back up.  In the last 3 weeks the HP updated 3 different times.  The first week it had 27 updates and took 4 hours to sleep/update.  Second week it had 59 updates and took over 5 hours to sleep/shut down.  This last time it had 63 updates and FINALLY shut down sometime after I went to bed 6 hours later.  It was also getting hotter than sin and I was pretty sure that I was going to catch something on fire just setting it on there.  I've had the Macbook Air for a whopping 4 hours now and it is definitely going to require a huge learning curve.  Once I get used to it I'll be fine, but the getting used to it thing will take a bit.  One thing I've officially decided is that I strongly prefer the Microsoft office set up, so that will be my next purchase for this.  I've been messing with the Numbers app deal that's on here, and even though it's fairly easy to use, I still would rather spend my life working on excel for stuff than this thing.  Numbers has a lot of cool things that I can use, but I move so much faster on Excel and can just shuffle something off to my manager in about 30 seconds that seems to take forever on here.  It'll get better though.  The really cool part about all of this?  Outside of a truly functional computer??  The fact that now when Red is traveling for work that we can Facetime!!!  We used Skype last week when he was in South Carolina, but most places he doesn't have decent enough internet for his computer to allow him to use Skype.  Now with Facetime he can use his phone or ipad while on his trips and we can chat on here!!

Ok, well now that I have a functional computer hopefully I'll actually blog more.  I have most of my 2014 race season planned out and I'll have A LOT of training to do, but it'll be fun.  Quick run down:
January: Disney Mickey Marathon (pacing Red for the Marathon portion of the "Dopey" Challenge he's doing)
February: 50k Rocks to Roots trail run
March: nothing, maybe Xenia half marathon
April: Xenia half marathon if it's not in march
May: Rev 3 Knoxville 70.3 and Triple T
June:
July:
August:
September: Ironman Wisconsin
I'll probably have something in the summer months, I just don't know what yet, we'll see!!!