Amazingly I am still using the Sony Vaio that I thought was about to go on the blink in January (you can catch up with all the various mentions by
looking here) There has been the odd scare when I think it's broken down completely and I have lost everything and bits of it have been falling off at fairly regular intervals, but still it works and everything is still on there. Eight months ago I hated this little machine, but now I admire its spunk. It seems to be pushing onwards against all odds and surviving. There is a lesson for us all in that.
But today might be amongst its last I fear. I don't quite know how or when it happened, but I was noticing a little stiffness in the screen as I opened or moved it, and as I was playing some internet poker in my bedroom this afternoon I tried to fix the problem, but realised that the right hand arm that holds the screen to the keyboard had actually come away from its slot and it was impossible to get it back in again. The computer still works, but the screen is now very wobbly (as well as still having a line all down its right hand side that makes reading some websites impossible- but it's been like that for ages) and if I persist in using it then clearly the whole thing will break off quite soon. Also I can see wires and stuff poking out now and I am not sure how safe that can be.
So though I am writing this entry on my beloved old Vaio, I think tomorrow I will have to finally go out to the Apple store and buy the Mac that I have been threatening to purchase for so long now.
I feel sad to let the old girl go. We have shared a lot of good times together - and not just when she has shown me pornography. But mainly then.
Will I really be writing about the 24th September on a new machine? Or should I run this one completely into the ground first? Even if I get a new one I can still use the old one til it dies. Especially once all the files and iTunes and stuff is on it. Ah, I feel quite sad. Which is weird because I am about to get a new computer, which is usually the best thing that can happen to me.
