Shiny new 'puter

I'll be updating the bio once it's all set up, but thanks to a friend's son upgrading his PC, I have a shiny new box sat under my desk at home. It's so new, it doesn't have a dial up modem as standard, so I need to go buy one. 2.6Ghz and lots of RAM. This may even lead me to investigate the use of some of those 'messenger' things people keep going on about. Don't hold your breath on that one though.

Stopped myself playing with it last night to get some sleep, but once I've got a modem for it I'll be fine. Windoze XP tho, the Ubuntu disks still haven't arrived, but at least XP auto partitions on first start up.

Anyone any advice for someone who has never owned a brand new PC, ever?

So, what's the first thing you do with a new PC?

Well, after installing FireFox, realising you haven't got a modem, buying one, trying to figure out how to stop it treating you like an idiot and sorting your bookmarks out?

Get a new desktop wallpaper so it doesn't look ugly of course.

Shiny new box. Quiet too, the old one was loud all the time, probably because I was overloading it. Now that I can do what I want, I'm so used to doing nothing that the temptation just isn't there. Story of my life really.

OTOH, Warcraft III is in my pile of "games I bought but didn't quite have the spec for", as is Medieval Total War. Hmmm...

Must. Resist.