Fascinated by Motion
Water Running. People Working. Fire Burning.
I dispatch this post from my phone. Rhetorical flourishes will be kept to a minimum. I had a great plot line for this one.
But then, I used up the hand-me-down laptop The Oldest used in high school. She just turned 26. I am waiting for the damage report.
I dropped it off at PC Tech, in the Village. Instantly comforted by the cluttered confines (ok, one flourish), Larry's shop held the skeletons of towers and laptops and carcasses of keyboards and mother boards.
Larry was talking to a customer on his ear buds. I love to see that. It looks like normal people are talking to themselves. Watching people work is a great pastime, especially when one is not working.
In this cement mixer of life, few things are constant and constantly bring comfort (ok, 2, damn!) The items listed in the title are three of those things.
Some just never slow down to notice. My Friends who read my words notice. And I appreciate it. This world is so fast and crazy right now it sucks bad sometimes. I hope my posts bring a moment to pause and reflect on the good things.
The timeless things. As I wait to be informed of the cost of repairing a laptop that is probably a decade old, I search the cost of a new one. About $1000 for a highly reviewed model. I see a cost-benefit analysis in my future.
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Ricler; I feel your pain! I had to revive some 90's technology myself a couple of years ago. We've decommissioned our CD/DVD replicators since then, but at the time we found ourselves having to reprogram the PLC's. To do that we needed Windows95 software. Since nobody (except you, evidently, ha!) had anything even remotely that old, we had to buy a vintage laptop with ancient software from eBay. As I recall, it was well over $300.00, plus shipping! Booting that thing up was a time warp. Blank 3-1/2" floppy disks are equally hard to come by; I actually pulled out a couple from a drawer at home from a previous life that we formatted and got it to work. Some people say you can never go back but I did go back, however reluctantly. Keep strivin'!