Alas Poor Laptop I Knew Thee Well

Well, it finally happened, dear reader. My laptop kicked the bucket.

It seems like only yesterday I was writing on a laptop I got as a highschool graduation gift and noticed something was off, barely managing to save all of my work to a flashdrive before it fried itself to death.

A quick google search later and I discovered that laptops were, in point of fact, expensive as absolute fuck. An even quicker google search later and I found out why: everyone wants a ritzy gaming laptop nowadays, or something that can edit top end films, or photos. It needs to be a beast that can handle tons of workload and leave things looking *crisp*.

Not I, though. Whoo buddy. No, I was looking for a glorified typewriter. I needed it to connect to the internet to be able to access my blog and run Microsoft word. That was it.

And so that’s what I got!

$75 later I walked out of a target with a criminally small and HP laptop that managed to punch shockingly above its weight for years.

Alas that all good things should come to an end.

You see, that laptop wasn’t just cheap. It was old. The battery was overheating frequently, it couldn’t connect to the internet most of the time, its memory was nonexistent, and half the time it couldn’t even open Microsoft word without crashing.

Thankfully my new laptop arrived before things got too bad (arriving last week) because if I turned on the old one right now it would sound like a jet taking off and generate enough heat to fry an egg, possibly without even turning on.

Am I rambling? Yes. Am I getting oddly sentimental over a piece of shit I bought at Target the better part of a decade ago specifically *because* it was a piece of shit? Also yes. But that POS got me through half of my first manuscript and all the way through countless hours spent editing and revising before dealing with both rounds of beta reading. It’s earned a moment of reflection even if part of that moment is wondering how in the hell it managed to survive for as long as it did.

So if there’s anything to be learned here, dear reader it’s this: always have a back up for your writing material because you never know when you’re going to suddenly find yourself needing to utilize it.

Stay cautious out there, and stay creating!

Until next time