Alas! recently the wireless has been flaking out (again), due to some kind of conflict between the kernel’s seventeen different attempts at making Broadcom cards actually work. I don’t much like OS X, so it’s been running Arch Linux since I got it, which has been a minor adventure. It was a MacBook Pro (late 2011 15”, MacBookPro8,2) provided by my endlessly selfless employer Yelp. Mel has been growing increasingly antsy being stuck in her room alone, so she’s been doing a lot of drawing out in the living room lately-she has a hybrid tablet drawing laptop thing-and I’ve subsequently grown increasingly antsy being stuck in my room alone on the other end of the house. That said, a laptop is still nice to have. I don’t need a laptop I work from home, rarely go anywhere I’d have enough time/space/inclination to use a laptop (except for visiting work), and am generally pretty happy with my desktop.

In the meantime, here’s something aimless and specific to me about how I bought a thing. I’ve started and abandoned maybe half a dozen posts in that time that I will totally maybe finish someday. That whole “dying cat” thing ruined most of my April, and I spent most of May dealing with various other life crises, and then June scrambling to catch up.

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