I’ve been posting too little lately, but my laptop computer, several years past its prime, has recently become nearly unusable. Merely booting it up, wrestling it into opening my browser and staying unfrozen long enough to post, has become a major hassle. You will be unsurprised to know it’s killed my writing productivity as well.
In fact, to avoid the hassle of turning on the computer, I’m writing this on my phone.
But good news: My tax refund finally arrived, so I have purchased a desktop computer, which should arrive in a little over a week. Due to expenses, I decided not to buy the high-end machine I was thinking about and instead went with a refurbished computer with respectable business-level specs and a large solid-state drive. I won’t be doing any hard-core gaming on it, but I was unlikely to do that anyway. And since it’s a desktop, I can upgrade the sucky graphics card later if need be.
In short, I aim to write more in the near future when merely booting up the computer and opening the start menu take less than an hour. This is the first time I’ve bought a refurbished machine, so I’m crossing my fingers.
