Piggy backing on my geek-like tendencies, I would like to say I took the Download Day challenge. I would also like to say rarely will you find me on a blog of forum claiming the one thing that never ceases to annoy me. “First!” I cannot tell you how much it chafes my chaps to read a blog and get all the way to the bottom, teaming with anticipation to leave a comment relative to the post, when I read this one word from an idiot reader. So, you’re first! DO YOU WANT A COOKIE?! You must want a cookie. Were you neglected as a child? Or did you always have this LOOK AT ME mentality? And claiming you’re first never emphasizes you have something meaningful to say. You just want to show everyone you’re really, really fast and can hit your ENTER key with the speed of a superhero, and look at you in your Garanimals, aren’t you PWEHSHUSS!

My carefree attitude and humility do not span the field of technology. While I have yet to surpass my husband who knows what gadget - hard or software - is due to hit the streets before it hits, what new album is set to drop, what new artist was just signed to what bloodsucking major label, I am not far behind him. Mainly because he calls or e-mails me and says, hey, did you see that new [fill in thing here]? And I’m all, whuh? I’ve been told by techie geeks the country over, either verbally or in some form of print, the number one rule for any form of technology… wait. “But it’s all shiny and pretty and did you see the pretty colors and -”… wait. “But I want it and it will make my computer so much better and the whole company should use it and you’d know if you put it on all the PCs for all the employees because it’s AWESOME and -”… wait. I have tested many a beta. Heck, I’m a PC owner. That whole system may as well be a never-ending beta with its laundry list of never-ending problems (thank you Bill Gates). I’m used to glitches and things crashing and patches and viruses and super viruses.

But I was one of the over 1 million (at the time of this posting) people who downloaded the new Firefox 3. On it’s first day of launching. And I didn’t wait. With all the shiny and the hype and the oh my goodness of Firefox, no. I didn’t wait. And now, realizing I may not be able to use my FTP host, or visit a few Flash enabled sites without a multitude of crashes, I hear the voice of those techie geeks. In hindsight, I should have waited. Having the chance to do it all over again, would I have waited, no. But that’s why they call it hindsight.

You COULD have, but you didn’t.