I mixed one drink, he's in memoriam

[sovay]

I aten't dead. The same cannot be said of my laptop; it went suddenly paralytic on Monday and by Tuesday could be neither revived nor shut down hard, which left me not at all pleased that this crash had occurred while I was in the middle of a new story and two extensive livejournal replies. (I have since recovered almost all relevant data, but it is currently consigned to the limbo of an external hard drive; I have at present nowhere to transfer any of it to. I find this immensely frustrating. Compared to a complete loss of mail, music, stories, etc., however, I'll take what I can get.) This is the machine I bought in January to replace the casualty of the unfortunate backpack incident—used, I knew, but I was still expecting more than eight months in its company. I am beginning to think I emit a kind of radiation fatal to the average Macintosh. Perhaps I should just go back to the typewriter under my desk. My mother wrote her dissertation on it; that should be worth something on the karma market.

I have also come to the conclusion that it is never a good sign to realize that you have just said something reminiscent of Sydney Carton in a context unrelated to self-sacrifice, Dickens, or eighteenth-century English law.

At least I have a pineapple.

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[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

Pineapple is good. The rest ranges from worrisome to crap. I hope that only the pinapple remains, and that only long enough to be delicious.

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

It occurs to me that I have a rather ancient dell that is pretty substandard in all ways, but came to me through overflow inheritance that you can just have. It is slow, it has very little memory, but it will get on the internet and maybe run open office at the same time, and no one cares what happens to it.

[sovay]

It occurs to me that I have a rather ancient dell that is pretty substandard in all ways, but came to me through overflow inheritance that you can just have.

Thank you. I actually have access to a computer at present; it is not one I could (or want to) keep for my own, but it gives me internet access. The offer is really, really appreciated.