I switched it on, and quickly discovered that it made reference to a webcam.  So I clicked on that, and it immediately started filming me.  So I took a photo of that.  Not a very good photo, but a photo:

I think cameras have trouble focussing on computer screens.  Nothing solid enough to grab hold of.  Or something.  Maybe I was too excited.

Very soon after that I decided, one thing at a time, I need a mouse.  I didn’t need to be learning how to use that horrid little pad thing, alongside learning how to use the rest of it.  So, I yesterday bought (another) mouse, which was far too big and with a wire far too long, but a mouse.  When I plugged it in this morning, this immediately worked, and I am accordingly doing my first word processing.  The program is the exact same one I use already: OpenOffice.org 2.0.  Excellent.  One less thing to be disconcerted by.

Last night I put it in my bag and took it out to dinner, to see what other people thought of it (they liked it a lot, especially the ladies and especially the price), and to see if it was easy to carry in my bag of regular clobber without too much extra effort.  It was.

I am now working on my first word processed document, this being it.  I had to hunt about for a button to delete the character to the right of the cursor, but I did find it. The keyboard’s diminutive size takes (took actually – I’m okay with it now after only a few minutes) a little getting used to.  I’ve never used one so small before.

I need to trim my nails.

Yesterday I tried connecting to the internet, using the wireless router(?), but couldn’t make that work.  I need to consult with The Guru.

Now I have successfully transferred the above to my real computer.  The Asus (I think from now on I’ll call it “Jesus” (as in “ay zoos")) won’t be a real computer until I can blog post from a cafe with it.

If you are wondering why you are reading this, well, I’m wondering why you are also.  This verbiage is for me, to remind myself in a year’s time of my first impressions of Jesus.  If you don’t care about that, look at it from my point of view. I don’t care that you don’t care.

This is a kitten blog, and I have a new kitten.