I\u2019m posting this from Windows 7!<\/p>\n
Yes, that\u2019s right. I upgraded the OS on our main computer today. I watched that little progress bar fill as I listened to old episodes of This American Life on my iPhone and read a book about why children lie.<\/p>\n
The OS upgrade was pretty successful. It\u2019s running and functional. The only thing missing? All the programs that were installed on XP. So, it\u2019ll just be a matter of re-downloading or re-installing a bunch of essential stuff.<\/p>\n
Installing a new Operating System is kind of like moving. You get a bit of a clean start, but you have all of your old crap in some folder stored away somewhere. But it\u2019s nice to be forced to think about each program again. Do I really<\/em> need to install that piece of software that I used once? Should I really<\/em> bring those old sweaters?<\/p>\n It\u2019s a chance to reevaluate. What really is necessary<\/em>? And what junk can I just leave behind, sell at a yard sale, leave undownloaded in the wilds of the Internet?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I\u2019m posting this from Windows 7! Yes, that\u2019s right. I upgraded the OS on our main computer today. I watched that little progress bar fill as I listened to old episodes of This American Life on my iPhone and read a book about why children lie. The OS upgrade was pretty successful. It\u2019s running and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[31,277],"class_list":["post-606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-year26","tag-computer","tag-junk","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":607,"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606\/revisions\/607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}