Houdini has made the decision that he is an 'inny-outy' cat. He and Mangey have become friends and they like to have their visits in the driveway. He stays very close to home, but I've got a 'thing' about bugs in the house. I was worried about fleas, so I went out and bought him a Seresto collar. They've worked very well on our last cats, and the thing that I like is that they are good for the summer. When it starts getting cold, I expect that Houdi will decide that he is once again a fan of the great indoors, so really, that $64 provides a year of protection for our part of the world. Breaking it down to $5 and change a month makes the upfront cost a bit easier to swallow.
This has never happened before but within a week of getting his collar, the cat managed to lose that collar. I kept thinking that we'd find it in the yard somewhere, but we didn't, and so, today we headed to the Walmart to buy him another collar. (Ugh!)
I grabbed the collar off the shelf, and Tim says what he always says which is "Why don't we check out the hunting section to see what they've got on clearance?"
And so we headed off that way. A bright yellow clearance sign always catches my attention, and I looked at a computer display briefly. "Gees," I said to Tim. "I can't believe how cheaply you can get a computer. I mean, we paid twice as much for our computer...how long ago was that? Seven years now? Yeah. I think it's been at least...." My voice trailed off as I realized I lost my husband.
I turned around and there he was back at the computers. He said, "At $179 for a HewlettPackard, I think we should get it. This is marked down from $439." Turns out that he'd been eyeballing computers at our own Walmart, and was disturbed to see that they did not seem to carry desktops anymore, at least not on the shelves. It turns out that people prefer laptops to desktops.
I guess Jaycee is not the only dinosaur. So now I have a question. How many other dinosaurs are there out there tapping your blog posts out on a desk top?
I still have a desktop. I'm not a fan of laptops.
ReplyDeleteOh, it's good to know that I'm not the lone dinosaur.
DeleteI have a desk top but not a tower. The innards are tucked behind the screen but I has to stay put and plugged in. I like the convenience of a laptop but I like the screen size of this one.
ReplyDeleteIT has to stay put, although I do, too, I suppose.
DeleteA herd of three!
DeleteMy desktop is ancient and probably doesn't even work anymore. I'm a huge fan of my laptop although I wouldn't like a tablet. I need a real keyboard. I'm also anti-mouse and am a track padder from when I taught, and the mouse would misbehave (not work well) on my desk.
ReplyDeleteTo be honest, I probably would do fine with a laptop, but I like one thing in this house which doesn't need to be charged.
DeleteMy desktop sits unused. Laptop is so much more convenient..
ReplyDeleteI think that if I had a laptop, I'd probably get used to it.
DeleteI really didn't want to get rid of my old desktop computer, but had to bite the bullet and go for a laptop and have gotten used to it now. My son advised me on the one to get which would last and so far, so good.
ReplyDeleteCats don't enjoy flea collars. I have never used them on mine. They have an eye-wateringly expensive (well, it is when buying 5 at a time) combined flea-0treatment and wormer which you put on the back of their neck where they can't reach to lick it. Works.
You can order it on Amazon, and it is very easy to use and works very well. A few drops on the back of the neck once a month.
DeleteWe always used Advantage, but it stopped being effective on a cat I had. We began using Seresto after an online poll, not unlike this dinosaur one.
DeleteIf I ever had a problem with Seresto, I'd probably try switching back.
I got rid of my huge old desktop many years ago and now use a laptop. When I retired and no longer needed it for work, P took over my previous top of the range model so that he can play games. I now have a smaller model for Internet use and no longer need any additional software installed which would slow it down.
ReplyDeleteSomehow I just knew you'd be a lap top gal.
DeleteI used to use a desktop at work and grew to hate the thing - mostly because of the tedious tasks I had to do with it. So at home I've always had laptops, the latest of which I am tapping away at right now.
ReplyDeleteIt works for all your photography stuff too?
DeleteUntil I started travelling to NZ, laptops..and one went with me the first time..and now I am using a largeish tablet...but I need to get back to the laptop which has a 17" screen..good for designing graphics and doing genealogy.
ReplyDeleteA laptop takes up less room than a desktop and its desk!
Brother has given me a keyboard and is hinting that I should link that to the laptop and link that to the TV screen as a monitor..I haven't got my head around that yet!
My son can do all that. He is definitely NOT a dinosaur, so you can't be in the dino club, gz. Sorry. You get over there with the rest of the whiz kids. :)
DeleteWe had a laptop years ago. It eventually failed in the manner that it became so slow. We carried the heavy beast around Japan it worked for the purpose at the time.
ReplyDeleteWe travel with our phones and tablets now, both quite new, but at home to produce blog posts and do important things online, our desktop is the only way to go. I was pleased to be able to buy a new one a year or so ago, even if it didn't come with dvd player/recorder. Mind it cost plus AU$1,000.
Dinosaur perhaps, but desktop for me.
Looking at photos and videos on a small screen is not satisfying.
A herd of four.
DeleteI have a desktop handed down to me from my sister. It works well enough for my needs but can be a bit slow at times...
ReplyDeleteFive
DeleteGosh. We haven't had a desktop computer in over fifteen years.
ReplyDelete*sigh* so what you are saying is that I am a woefully dated dinosaur?
DeleteI really need to get a new desktop, but can't get around to it even though I can no longer update some programs. Mine will be expensive, but I have saved up for it.
ReplyDeleteI think that you use yours for photography and edits, and so you need a fancy one. Herd of six.
DeleteWe never put a collar on Domino because he is always climbing in trees and once got his collar stuck on a broken branch but survived to tell the tail.
ReplyDeleteHoudi-cat is not an adventurer. He stays within earshot. He's also vocal. If we can't see him, we can hear him.
DeleteI use a laptop, but my wife still faithfully the desktop she had when she worked, which they let her keep. She retired four years ago, and I can't believe it, but it still works fine.
ReplyDeleteDoes Susan want to join a herd of dinosaurs? :) Really, we have just a bottom of the line Acer. We got it because the other one we had got boggy and undependable. I needed something to keep things open with my daughter when she was in Afghanistan. That cheapy little Acer has served us faithfully since early 2016. It still is going strong although it sometimes needs to be shut down and restarted which takes forever.
DeleteI use the desk top. I guess I could get used to a lap top.
ReplyDeleteHerd of seven.
DeleteWriting this on my desktop. The best part is the 27 inch monitor. In fact we have two, my husband and I each have one and are in no hurry to switch to laptops.
ReplyDeleteHerd of eight.
DeleteI haven't owned a desktop since 2000! Even at work I'm on a laptop now. They are much more convenient, I gotta say, and I love not having that big hunk of machinery in the house.
ReplyDeleteCould you put Houdini on something like Advantage? Olga gets a pill to repel fleas and ticks and some other things. (Yeah, I know -- pilling a cat, especially one prone to disappearing, is hard.)
Welcome back, Steve. I like my big hunk of machinery sitting on it's desk waiting for me to sit in my chair! It takes two of us to get a collar on him. I can't imagine giving him a pill.
DeleteAdvantage and Frontline are drops you put on back once a month.
DeleteI am familiar with both products. I switched to Seresto after Advantage just seemed to lose its effectiveness. Perhaps it was just a bad year for fleas. I do not know. We've had good luck with that.
DeleteMy spouse and one of my brothers still use desktops. I've used a laptop for probably 20 years or more.
ReplyDeleteWe struggle with ticks on our outside dogs, but adding apple cider to their water buckets has made a big difference in fleas. But of course you're wanting NO fleas as opposed to LESS fleas. There's never been the option of in and out here. One of our dogs wanted that, but chose out when she realized she couldn't have both.
That should have been apple cider VINEGAR. Not just apple cider. 🙄
DeleteYou know, I read that as apple cider vinegar. I had to go back and read it again to even notice that you'd left the word out.
DeleteI have had a laptop since the early 00s?
ReplyDeleteOh, and at work I have a laptop connected to 2 monitors and I use it all!
DeleteI've used two monitors before. I'm not a mentally agile dinosaur.
DeleteI still prefer my desktop PC and tower. I'm blessed that my son can build them from all of the different parts into a pretty tower. I like the bigger screen, and hate tiny keyboard things. I have a bamboo keyboard made by Vivitar and it's like typing on clouds without the clacky noise. I love my little laser mouse, and it still has a "tail" into the tower. My son had battery-operated mice and the batteries died too often. I use my cell phone to search stuff if I'm away from home. I have a nice Chromebook for work to do nursey charting, but sometimes touch the mouse-pad little square and I don't like that. (We use a stylus for the never-ending charting little squares for symptom choices.) Disclaimer: yep, I'm on the oldish side of the game. I don't play games except for my old Frogger DVD. Yep, the kid attached a DVD drive to my computer. Linda in Kansas
ReplyDeleteHerd of nine. We don't play games on our computer at all, so I guess that saves me. Although I do have one game on my phone that I play.
DeleteI'm still on my desk top computer and waiting for a hand me down from a "child".
ReplyDeleteThe herd has reached double digits!
DeleteMe! I dislike laptops compared to my nice office chair, full sized keyboard and large screen of my desktop.
ReplyDeleteHerd of 11.
DeleteNo desktops? What?!? I love my desktop and it's going to have to be replaced some time I'm sure. But I would always want another desktop.
ReplyDeleteA dozen dinosaurs!
ReplyDelete*Raises hand*
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