  Normally,  I don't much like being a quitter. nbsp;  I quit soccer at age 5 because I thought other kids,  who had already played 2 years,  had already progressed too far for me.
nbsp;  I quit baseball because my crazy private school in 4th grade told me I couldn't play with " sinner"  kids because I might go to hell. nbsp;  I quit basketball in 11th grade because the varsity coach was a jerk who happened to get fired the following year.
nbsp;  I've quit 4 restaurant jobs ( two of them twice) nbsp;  I quit teaching 8th grade math after a half a year. nbsp;
 If there's a legacy in my life,  it's that I quit things. nbsp;  I quit because they get difficult and irritating. nbsp;  I figure I'm good at so many things,
 I can afford to quit one of them. nbsp;  Well,  I've been trying to reverse that trend lately,  but not in this.  I've quit buying refurbished computers and trying to home-
build computers. nbsp;  It's just not worth it. nbsp;  I can do a lot,  really get close,
 but it's just not worth the hassle. nbsp;  I see so many people,  most people,  who get by with store- bought Windows (
non- Linux)  machines. nbsp;  I've been using my parents' for the past 2 months because& nbsp;
I can't get my stupid thing to work. nbsp;  Come to think of it,  in the past year I have had about 6 months of use out of my own computer,  and that hasn't even been that good. nbsp;
 I was still using a decrepit 13"  monitor that was a little too dark. nbsp;  I was on Linux,  which,  try as they may,
 my computer geek friends have not been able to convince me is easy to use or as accessible as Windows. nbsp;  So,  I'm done. nbsp;  Tomorrow,
 I'm going to go buy a $ 540 package computer/ monitor/ printer from Best Buy. nbsp;  I'm peddling the last of my $
400 or $ 500 junk- build- computer for $ 84. 99 on eBay (
 urlLink http: cgi. ebay. com/ ws/ eBayISAPI.
dll? ViewItem& amp; item= 3495622863 ) nbsp;
 Here's to happy new computing,  a sight I haven't seen since I graduated college. nbsp;  Onward and upward!
