Toshiba 1200
Jan. 19th, 2001 12:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gerbieI am writing this now on my old laptop. It's a Toshiba, T-1200, for the experts amongst you. I don't know how old it is, but if I have to guess I'd say at least 15 years. I bought it second hand in Sydney, while I was there during the Olympics and did some writing for my hometown newspaper.
I really think it was worth the effort, I am enjoying being able to write whenever I can. Obviously it doesn't connect to the web, but I can save it on disk and then safe time in internetcafes, where I tend to stay too long anyway. Which is far too expensive. I've exceeded my travel budget far too often, which means I will have to work on returning in Australia.
I am even downloading my friends-pages from Livejournal, which gives me something to read at nighttime, when I'm tired of having the same communication with fellow travellers every single day. Unfortunately that also means that I can't see anything but text. No colours, no pictures, no links. And I can't react either, however much I sometimes would like to. Tell Jeroen to enjoy his time studying, discuss books and trivial pursuit with Dreamdancer, music with Beatchick. Hoping that Insomnia writes a bit more about politics and less about computers and expanding LJ. Want to discuss fantasy sports with Tbone, know what is happening with Somegirl. I never thanked the people who mailed me for my birthday. A lot of my IRL friends didn't even do that, not a miracle though, as I have missed 6 out of my last 8 birthdays. Sometimes I consider it would be nice if I don't have to count those years either. But it goes to show how nice some LJ-ers are. I miss it. Reading about people looking for jobs and what goes on in their minds. And as a non-regular poster here, I get less reactions on my own entries as well.
I would like to update my interests page, create a new LJ for my newsletters exclusively and not inbetween the other entries. Update as soon as I finished reading a book, as I enjoy writing about every single one of them, I am even considering to continue counting whenever I'm back. To register every single book I'll read this century. There's so much I'd like to do, what I can't do. But on the other hand, I'm doing plenty with my little lovely machine (well little, it's a heavy one, especially when hitchhiking..). I write long emails to Marcela and home. Answer other people's emails longer than I usually would. Take more time for my newsletters and the translation of them. Write plenty of travel impressions/stories, though never enough to my liking. I edit some of the stories I wrote on paper, while putting them on disk. I read stories I've downloaded from the web, reread emails I've saved on disk and read my LJ's. Where would I be without this machine. All that for 75 Australian dollars (something like 50 US).
I really think it was worth the effort, I am enjoying being able to write whenever I can. Obviously it doesn't connect to the web, but I can save it on disk and then safe time in internetcafes, where I tend to stay too long anyway. Which is far too expensive. I've exceeded my travel budget far too often, which means I will have to work on returning in Australia.
I am even downloading my friends-pages from Livejournal, which gives me something to read at nighttime, when I'm tired of having the same communication with fellow travellers every single day. Unfortunately that also means that I can't see anything but text. No colours, no pictures, no links. And I can't react either, however much I sometimes would like to. Tell Jeroen to enjoy his time studying, discuss books and trivial pursuit with Dreamdancer, music with Beatchick. Hoping that Insomnia writes a bit more about politics and less about computers and expanding LJ. Want to discuss fantasy sports with Tbone, know what is happening with Somegirl. I never thanked the people who mailed me for my birthday. A lot of my IRL friends didn't even do that, not a miracle though, as I have missed 6 out of my last 8 birthdays. Sometimes I consider it would be nice if I don't have to count those years either. But it goes to show how nice some LJ-ers are. I miss it. Reading about people looking for jobs and what goes on in their minds. And as a non-regular poster here, I get less reactions on my own entries as well.
I would like to update my interests page, create a new LJ for my newsletters exclusively and not inbetween the other entries. Update as soon as I finished reading a book, as I enjoy writing about every single one of them, I am even considering to continue counting whenever I'm back. To register every single book I'll read this century. There's so much I'd like to do, what I can't do. But on the other hand, I'm doing plenty with my little lovely machine (well little, it's a heavy one, especially when hitchhiking..). I write long emails to Marcela and home. Answer other people's emails longer than I usually would. Take more time for my newsletters and the translation of them. Write plenty of travel impressions/stories, though never enough to my liking. I edit some of the stories I wrote on paper, while putting them on disk. I read stories I've downloaded from the web, reread emails I've saved on disk and read my LJ's. Where would I be without this machine. All that for 75 Australian dollars (something like 50 US).
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