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October 13, 2004
A Brief Disconnect
Tuesday afternoon during Crim Pro my laptop battery suddenly died. It wasn't so bad then since my notes in Crim Pro are few and far between but when I got home and wanted to check the news a couple hours later, I was more than a little lost.
The power supply and hard drive in my desktop machine died last spring and I hadn't bothered to replace them since I had the laptop. I was computerless. It wasn't a comfortable feeling. Is that sick or just a sign of the times?
I don't have the patience to sit through the evening news or Anderson Cooper or Headline News and wait through all the fluff and BS just to find out what's going on (and that's assuming the teevee news actually tells you anything that's true anyway). It's so much more efficient to just click a couple of bookmarks and be done in ten minutes. Am I alone in feeling like this, or will Headline News go to a 10 minute cycle in a few years?
A power supply and hard drive got the big desktop with the 21" monitor running again so now I'm back on-line. Plus, Rome: Total War runs so much better on the big machine.
I am reminded of the condition of my office, though. The Eames office chair still needs to be reglued and I spilled wine on the keyboard last winter. The arrow keys don't work and neither does the left control key, which I favor for cutting and pasting.
Taking notes in class today on a yellow legal pad wasn't much different than normal. I didn't miss the internet as much as I thought I would and I still took tons of notes in Con Law and Admin Law and almost no notes in Evidence. I was jealous of all the people playing games around me. Justin must have played every game on Yahoo! during Evidence while I tried to be content with the Daily Nebraskan crossword.
Posted by Half-Cocked at October 13, 2004 11:35 PM