The "Little One"

By the bye, just thought I'll mention that the previous post ("Donkies!" for The Piglett) was my first post composed on my new laptop, an urgent and necessary purchase made last week because the old one suddenly gave up the ghost, leaving me friendless and alone and unconnected of an evening, in my little room. I was thinking of it come Thanksgiving anyway, but it had to be now.

Nothing too special or too powerful about the new baby, pretty much it's biggest advantage being it's affordability... but, hopefully, in time, I should be able to accessorise and enhance it's functionality. For now, I'm content with a stronger battery, a wider screen, inbuilt wireless connectivity and CD-DVD R/W/RW, over the older system - the higher RAM and memory being a given, of course.

I did grieve over my old laptop for a while - there's not too much data in it luckily, but a lot of pictures, music, etc., and more than anything else, having worked it really hard for the research and writing of my Master's thesis and subsequent attainment of the degree gives it a claim on my affections that the new Baby still has to strive for.

I am still hoping that I'll be able to get out the data I seem to have lost on the old system, I'll have to figure out how. Hopefully that will happen soon, too.