Meanwhile, back in the 21st Century…

So 2012 was bad for me in terms of electronics. My netbook fan went kaput and my phone was out for a few months, and I wound up staring down the barrel of The Way Things Used To Be for a little while.

Having grown up in the late 20th Century with a few years of pre-Internet and pre-Wireless Everything under my belt, this wasn't the trauma-fest it could have been. In fact, there were some areas in which an involuntary unplug was actually kind of beneficial. Still, the situation overall wasn't ideal. I do most of my writing on a computer, and many of the people I like and hold dear live far afield. As much as the whole Frontier Days experience was useful, I'm glad it's over.

So now I'm sitting on the sofa next to Gwen, who's been kind of clingy since late November and wants always to be snuggled up against and/or playing with one of her humans, learning my way around my shiny, refurbished Lenovo X200. It's an older machine, but this has been a good morning in terms of feeling very comfortable with it. I miss having a touch pad for my mousing tasks, and it amuses me that the touch screen requires a stylus, but this is a big step up from the HP Mini I was using in terms of screen real estate and flexibility.

I can work on this. I can play with this. Yes.

One of the casualties during the Great Unplug was access to certain journaling and social networking sites. I anticipate seeing these more often, and figuring out whether or not they still benefit me or make me happy. It's also going to be a damn sight easier to blog and work now that I'm not confined to Other People's Stuff to do it with.

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