...step right up ... it's the only product you will ever need...

[desperance]

Okay, that's done, then. I have ordered the Laptop of Heavenly Perfection.

And it may indeed be as wonderful as I can persuade myself that it is; or it may be another thing altogether, an act of rank folly. Either way, I can't actually afford it, but hey. This is why we have debts, yes? To shuffle them around, from one account to another? So long as I die before they actually catch up and overtake me, all will be well. Hell, I'm even going to die creditably, in credit: this house is worth more than I owe, and I don't have to leave it to anyone else.

On the other hand, of course, I don't plan to die for a while yet, and galloping debts may indeed overtake some slow beast slouching towards Bethlehem. At which point - well, hey. At least I tried.

Anyway, the theory says that the Laptop of Heavenly Perfection will cause me to earn more money than it costs, simply by writing more. Lots more, hopefully. I think this is a lovely theory, and I'm clinging to it until it's disproved.

And it hath wi-fi. I'm entitled to wi-fi, aren't I? Every writer I know hath wi-fi...

And so on. Oh, the lovely arguments. Now I shall beat myself up until it arrives (days away! days and days! I could get very bored, even with myself!), and then I shall be anxious and fretful until it's charged up and working, and then I shall fret more over getting Linux onto it (or trying to, and very likely failing, and needing gurus), and then I shall fret over how and where and when to use it, and and and. My neurotic life, let me show you it...

But! Laptop of Heavenly Perfection! On its way!!

Comments

[footlingagain.livejournal.com]

*cranks up laptop envy*

I'm still fighting the impulse to buy a laptop at all. But a Laptop of Heavenly Perfection - how could you refuse?

[desperance.livejournal.com]

As it turns out, of course, I couldn't. In the end. I have been struggling to refuse for a year: from the moment I first saw it, priced at £1799. I wanted it for months in that condition. And then it came down to £1499, and was hence a Bargain; and lo, I went on refusing it. On a daily basis. Until now, when it's suddenly out there on the interwebs much much cheaper, and I'm astonished that I've held out even for the weeks that I've known that...

[martyn44.livejournal.com]

Its a laptop, you can use it wherever you put your lap. The bath, if you're very careful.

I used laptops for quite a fiew years (Olivetti, Amstrad, several Toshibas) but I've returned to a desk top. Of course, I have had to buy a desk as well . . .

[desperance.livejournal.com]

I do, I confess, like my desktop. I like my big ergo keyboard; I'd like a bigger screen. (I have friends who'd say "an even bigger screen.")

I want the laptop for added value, to add hours of extra work when I can't be here. Whether that'll happen, who can say? Can't prove it one way or the other, without a laptop...

[devonellington.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! You've earned this laptop. It will be brilliant. You will make gobs of money from the writing you do with it, and never be in debt again.

[gauroth.livejournal.com]

When you name it, will you be calling it 'Heavenly Perfection'?

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Attagirl. That is so much the kind of response I want & need...

And a happy new year, and may yours be even more fruitful than my own!!

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Sheng Mian. Although this is a kind of crispy noodle, I have also found it as a curious oriental symbol meaning 'heavenly perfection', so that will do me...

[fidelioscabinet.livejournal.com]

I have had a lot of fun with this site:

http://www.mandarintools.com/worddict.html

although, given my level of ignorance of all Chinese dialects, it's probably just asking for trouble to fiddle around there.

[papersky.livejournal.com]

I don't have wifi. I don't even have a laptop since my poor Caliban died.

But you do deserve it, and I'm sure it's lovely.