Laptop’s battery now fully dead. Grrr. Hip feeling better, shoulder feeling pretty bad, but still usable, if I’m careful (guess who won’t be at the gym as much for a week or two. bleh)
Had a nightmare I recall. Like many of my nightmares, this one is a repeat, with a ‘repeating the day until you get it right’ feel to it. Over the past couple years, several times I’ve had a dream of the segment of suburbia where I went to high school. In this dream, people, who look like normal suburbanites, from somewhere else pillage, murder, and burn through my old neighborhood like a raging barbarian horde. By whatever virtue or chance, I survive.
This one was a little different from the others. I think this is the first time I saw the murders up close and personal. And where previously the victims of this arrangement fled and the horde butchered them brutally, this time there was simply resigned terror, and the invaders, after some momentary confusion, shrugged and killed them quietly, impersonally, and quickly, like putting away the dishes.
After I woke up it occured to me that it might be related to all the time I spent yesterday thinking about the damage of our car-centric culture (particularly in terms of loss of life), the unthinking acceptance most have of it, and the adamant resistance to alternatives.
Also, bleh, new pictures were on laptop, don’t even have gimp installed on new machine, it may be a bit before those new pictures become available.
So, should I buy a ‘new’ (used, but new to me) laptop for like $350 (my old laptop has issues galore, case is falling apart, it occasionally freezes when I try to pop the keyboard back into the broken case, and it has a vertical red line through the right side of the screen, as well as some bad graphics)? That’s what I did last time, and I got a little under two years out of it, replacing one hard drive, and an ac-adapter (the first one was because I wrapped it up stupid and damaged the wires). Or should I not abuse tom’s generosity, get a mostly new desktop for about the same amount (slightly cheaper), plugging in the hard drive and other stuff from my old computer. Would certainly have a better computer, but wouldn’t be able to do my net stuff downstairs anymore.
Hmmm, decisions, decisions.
option 3: buy a new laptop for something like $750-$800, which ALMOST guarantees reliable/good performance and is only slightly more than twice what you were going to pay for the other laptop. try dell or micron. or, get a super cheap shuttle box
Why is the battery always the first thing to poop out on a laptop? Kinda destroys the “portability” feature.