I'm back!

Most of you who read this know that I'm back in the states; actually, I think most of you have seen me. Well, I'm moved in to my new house (dubbed "The Manor" by its inhabitants), which I keep trying to call a flat for reasons that don't make any real sense, and am about to change the title of the blog to simply "Raeann's Adventures", as I might keep updating with tidbits about my life that strike me as adventurous and interesting but that happen here in Spokane.
But not before I fill in the London blanks!
Posts to follow in the approximate order of their dates.
Oh, and I'm posting this from BruceWayne (or just Bruce in company). It's a rather dashing-looking black Lenovo that can't hope to be as awesome as Max (aka the Mac), so I named it after Batman to increase its coolness factor. I'm thinking about getting a batman logo sticker/skin, either to make it look cooler or to replace the manufacturers's protective sticky thing that I've left on the cover to protect it while moving and haven't got around to removing.
In spite of my still-strong attachment to the Mac, Bruce is growing on me. For one, he has a name and gender. I still think of the Mac as an it, even though I named it Max in the last few months of ownership. I'm rather enamoured of the fingerprint logon for Bruce, and the fact that he does in fact have two-finger scrolling capability was ridiculously exciting. The keyboard is nice, even if the number pad does get in my way sometimes. The processor is way slower than the Mac, but I really only watch movies that I've seen a hundred times before and am just watching now to fill the silence, let's face it. Also, it can hook up to a TV if I have cables, something that the Mac would only have been able to do for several hundred dollars.
Is this my new favourite computer? Absolutely not. I miss the Mac, and the multitouch, and OSX, and the more sensitive scrolling, and the fast processor, and the way I had conformed it to my needs. But, in the absence of the Mac, BruceWayne will have to do. After all, he's secretly Batman.