My trusty ThinkPad T40 died this week, and life has been a bit more complicated as a result. I've been able to keep working on my wife's laptop, but most other tech-related activity has come to a grinding halt--and work hasn't gone all that smoothly. It's a sobering reminder that no matter how much of my digital identity has migrated to the cloud in recent years, a healthy chunk of it is still locked up, earthbound, in that goddamn wonderful machine. So do I complete the transition, cut the tether that binds me to a particular box, and hope that I'll have access to the network whenever I need it? I'm not quite ready to make that leap--there are too many times when I want to work off the net, if only to silence the ADDemons that thrive online and sharpen my focus on the task at hand. But I clearly haven't gone far enough--so if you're so inclined, please say a little prayer for Herrick and the gang at Ameritech Computer Services. I know you can do it, Herrick! (And in the meantime, I probably won't be blogging much. Hope to be back in action soon.)
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