Rising From the Ashes
I'm back.
No snazzy new macBook, sadly. Same old SPOC, fresh from the Genesis Planet (or, you know, my dad's workshop. Same thing, really.) with a big bright new (to me) monitor and a hard drive that doesn't crash every 3 minutes. So, it's not the fabulous laptop of my dreams, but it's still a computer, and having gone back to living life in the dark ages (or, you know, the early 90s), I'm just happy to have a means to be back on line sitting in my living room, even if it is tethered to a desk.
It's strange, but it's actually a little daunting to wade back into the web after a two week hiatus. I've been trying to keep up, but I lost all my bookmarks, and when bloglines tells me that my feeds have upwards of 100 posts to catch up on, well....wow. I never realized what a big part of my life the internet had become until I disconnected from it. And to be honest, I'm not quite sure how I feel about that. On the one hand, I love the internet. The cool stuff you can find. The wealth of information. The interesting people. Not to mention the strangers who have become friends. Friends I couldn't pick out of a lineup if my life depended on it, but friends nonetheless. Those are all things I love about the interweb. But, it's a timesucker. And I'm a natural procrastinator. Not the best fit really. So there's that. I'm not sure what it all means. Certainly not that I'm giving it all up to go live in Amish country. I refuse to live life without email, and I'm not sure which I missed more, blogging or lurking. But I'm going to try to remember to turn off the computer more often (and not just so that I don't blow out another power supply).
Not until I've gorged myself on all the blogs I've been missing though. Baby steps and all.
Comments
HOORAY!!! Glad to see you're back!
Glad you are back up and running!
You didn't miss anything from me. Too much nice weather & sameness, which are both Good Things (TM).
Hey your back!! I'm on mini-vacation of my bodys making. check out my blog (gotta go to like 4 post ago) to see why...
Laptops, I am discovering, do not have the lifespan of a desktop. (Well, PCs don't, though, I am given to understand, Macs are much sturdier.)
My laptop is currently working - but only if the right side of it is elevated half a cm or so. If it's level, the monitor goes completely bizarro. (My son has explained why this happens. It is not important. The main thing is that I am one half cm from needing a new computer. Sigh...)
So, maybe your genesis machine (yay your dad!) isn't so bad after all...
Good to see you back girl! I missed you.
xoxo
