Jonesing

[elfs]

Twice so far this week someone on the bus has asked me why I wasn't working on my laptop. "It broke," I said, and they both smiled in tolerant amusement. I admit that I've been getting a lot more reading done; the office is cleaner, too, since I'm now chained to a desktop for most of my high-end CPU needs.

But I'm jonesing to get back to writing, coding, and studying Japanese, all of which require the laptop; it's portability, and the fact that my diskimage of it is actually organized by projects and tasks, unlike the desktop, which is organized by storage needs: games, movies, music, anime, that kind of stuff.

I see according to UPS that my new laptop, provided it's stable, is scheduled to be delivered sometime this morning. Once I've got a kernel installed on it I'll just slap my old OS on top of it and call emerge world to bring everything up-to-date, but I don' wanna wait.

Comments

[casualprofessor.livejournal.com]

It's a little scary to think that the other bus riders have you marked as "the guy who's always working on his laptop".

[elfs.livejournal.com]

Nah, that's not so bad. Better that than "the guy who smells bad," "the construction worker who obviously has vodka in that water bottle," "the woman who gets so wrapped up in her book that halfway through the busride her dentures start to fall out and she looks like an ashen-faced Ridley Scott alien," "the woman in faux leopardprints who reads John Birch literature," or "the man who talks too loudly about his colitis."

And let's not forget "Preacherman with a bible, a do-rag, and a raging hard-on to preach to every pretty woman who gets on the bus."

I do it too. I think everyone does.