What the hell is this blog about?

This blog documents my fantasy of ditching my Windows machine and using a Chromebook for both my personal and work lives.   Maybe I'll ascend to the cloud like an angel (hence aspiring angle) or remain bound to the Earth.  Perhaps this blog will help someone considering or trying to move from Windows.

Why am I doing this? 

• The main reason is for disaster recovery.  Even though I backup daily, if my Windows machine fails, it will take time to reinstall the software such as Outlook, Office, Quicken and such.  Would think it would be easier with a Chromebook.
• I think it will be cheaper in the end in both hardware and software costs, though I am not sure.
• With respect to my work, I have a small business and we do not have a dedicated IT person.  It seems having everything on the cloud would make it easier to replicate the employee experience.
• Might be fun (for a minute or two).

Expected hurdles.  On my PC I have some applications that I expect will be hard to port.  These include Quicken, R (RStudio), and Excel due to files with macros.  No doubt unforeseen hurdles will present themselves.

What have I done so far?  I bought an HP Chromebook from BestBuy, specifically the HP - 2-in-1 14" Touch-Screen Chromebook - Intel Core i3 - 8GB Memory - 64GB eMMC Flash Memory - White, Slate Model:14-DA0011DX, SKU:6301869.  This was about $350 on the recent Black Friday sale.  

I've been taking a course on JavaScript from CodeCademy with the idea that I can use this to replace my Google macros (functions).