My baby will be home tomorrow!

For the last few weeks my laptop has been away at HP getting souped-up. She is getting an up rated motherboard and a new “super-bright” screen. Why do this rather than just buy a new machine? Well I really like the vibe from this one and just don’t want to get rid of her quite yet. I am really gonna need my baby for the new job. However the time away from my laptop has led me to discover a few things. I NEED my laptop. It has all of my software set up the way I prefer to use it and all of my websites faithfully loaded into Firefox but more than that it is my archive. It is my office and my art studio and my entertainment center all in one and without it I feel almost homeless, emotionally speaking. Every thing that I have written for the last year and a half is on that thing. I have most of it on paper but both the books I’m working on are in there and they are the ONLY copies. Not smart. I know, I know. I have many external drives and have backups of most everything else but for some reason not my writings. That will be remedied on Monday when la macchina is returned to me. I have discovered another thing. I have had to use a few different machines to post and get work done in my time away and well I don’t work as well on another keyboard. I feel more creative when sitting at that machine than I do almost anywhere else. I think it must be like the chef who has a preference for HIS knives and just can’t get into the proper groove without them. Other keyboards are fine and functional but they simply aren’t my baby and so don’t feel right. Soon I will have my machine back and I can get back to work on the 5 projects that I need her for. I have a book of letters that will be going to press in about a week. It is more of an archival thing for me and a test for another much larger project so I am really curios to see how it all works out.

Later,
Sam