If I have to stamp my feet and hold my breath until we turn blue, we are going to CompUSA today. They have the Wacom Graphire4 4×5 tablets on sale with a $20 rebate which brings the price down to $80. It comes with Photoshop Elements 3 and Painter Essentials 2, and having the tablet and those two programs would set me up nicely to be able to hold off on buying other graphics software. Yes, I am going to demand, at the top of my lungs if necessary, that we get me a tablet for the Mac today.

It’s not just the lack of software that is getting me down either. I just can’t continue to use the mouse. The real reason I got a tablet for my PC so many ages ago was that mice make my hands hurt, and I was incapable of adapting to a trackball (didn’t help the hands much anyway). I do love the Apple Mighty Mouse, and as far as mice go, it is very ergonomic and easy to use. I don’t plan to disconnect it and not have a mouse at all like I did on my PC, but I can’t use it every day and all the time. It’s only been a few weeks, and I can already feel the first slight needle-like pains shooting from wrist to elbow. I want to put a stop to it now.

And it would be nice to have some graphics software too. The open source stuff I am trying to use is not working for me. It’s fine software, but it would be better if I had something I was more familiar with … like Photoshop and Painter. Sure they are older versions, but it’s not like working with older versions of software is something new for me. Everything on my PC is a few years old (or even older).

Yup … I am going to insist we get a tablet today. Budget be damned, I’ll eat ramen for a month if necessary. I’m getting bored with my fancy new computer, because all I can do with it is surf the internet and play silly games.

I better go start making a big, luscious breakfast for Lin to butter him up a little. I might even use my “womanly wiles”.