Gone, gone, and never called me mother...

[desperance]

Nice men have come and taken away my life computer.

Being lifeless, I don't know what to do now.

I am making vague attempts at clearing the desk - Seize The Opportunity! etc - but I can't even call them half-hearted, there is so little heart in them.

What I tell myself I'll do once the desk is cleared, I'll plug the old computer into the new monitor and see what happens. It must be two years since I even powered it up, so I take that as evidence that I no longer need the data thereon; maybe I'll put in a clean Linux install and use it as a back-up hereafter (there must presumably be a way to network two machines together such that one will simply mirror the other automatically, so that if one dies the other is already primed with all the data and ready to go?).

As the nice men said it'll be tomorrow before they can hope to bring the dead back to life, I could even schedule tomorrow as Sort Out The Office day. Maybe...?

Or of course I could try this whole use-the-laptop-as-your-life thing that so many of you do, and see if I can't manage a whole day's work on the LHP. But I'm not convinced...

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[kateelliott.livejournal.com]

This is why I now have a desktop AND a laptop. I only got a laptop in spring 2006, and now I don't know how i would live without one. It's very sad (these dependencies).