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Oct. 9th, 2008 11:36 pmWell. So, as I mentioned before, my laptop died and that killed what little writing I was getting done. I decided I needed a new one and started looking at the smaller notebooks, then realized that in a month where I've failed to pay my car payment and electric bill and am not sure if I'm going to be able to pick up groceries again before next payday, buying a new laptop at all was definitely way out of the question.
Yet, a new laptop (the model I'd picked out) is on its way as an early holiday present from my folks. Yay! It'll be a few weeks before it gets here (I ordered it from a supplier who discounts to state employees) but soon I will have my Asus eee PC 1000. Weighing in at 3.2 lbs, it should be much easier to haul around places (unlike my 10-lb Dell that died, which was only portable with great effort even pre-baby.) I'm really hoping this has a renewing effect on my writing output. I've been having a lot of great ideas and it's just a matter of finding the opportunity to get my fingers on a keyboard for enough of a chunk of time to settle into "writing mode". (This entry has been written in about four pieces so far as I get distracted by babies and child one and the dog.)
It probably wouldn't hurt to win the lottery, either. It's been a very long time since I was this broke, and I'm finding it intensely distressing. Hopefully I'll find a way out of my current financial hole, and people in Massachusetts will be smart enough to vote no on question one so my job won't go away in January. Though a small part of me can't help but think if I lost my damned job that maybe I'd be forced to figure out what do to with my life that's both satisfying AND sustainable.
Anyhow, it's briefly quiet now so I'm gonna see if I can't get the start of Surf committed to pixels.
Yet, a new laptop (the model I'd picked out) is on its way as an early holiday present from my folks. Yay! It'll be a few weeks before it gets here (I ordered it from a supplier who discounts to state employees) but soon I will have my Asus eee PC 1000. Weighing in at 3.2 lbs, it should be much easier to haul around places (unlike my 10-lb Dell that died, which was only portable with great effort even pre-baby.) I'm really hoping this has a renewing effect on my writing output. I've been having a lot of great ideas and it's just a matter of finding the opportunity to get my fingers on a keyboard for enough of a chunk of time to settle into "writing mode". (This entry has been written in about four pieces so far as I get distracted by babies and child one and the dog.)
It probably wouldn't hurt to win the lottery, either. It's been a very long time since I was this broke, and I'm finding it intensely distressing. Hopefully I'll find a way out of my current financial hole, and people in Massachusetts will be smart enough to vote no on question one so my job won't go away in January. Though a small part of me can't help but think if I lost my damned job that maybe I'd be forced to figure out what do to with my life that's both satisfying AND sustainable.
Anyhow, it's briefly quiet now so I'm gonna see if I can't get the start of Surf committed to pixels.
