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Another Rubicon
Jan. 22nd, 2004 03:23 amI've composed and posted ninety-six percent of my LJ posts through the "safety" web page. For the past three years, I've read my email as text-only and got upset that I needed to set up another program to read any attached photos. I've sat up late resurrecting lost Windows or Linux files. I was always in a state of transition and thus I never had all of the tools and toys I needed. Then I got a used Mac running Panther (OS 10.3).
I got more work done on this laptop in the past three weeks than I had on my main computer in half a year. I've sorted a bunch of email, set up a small but growing address book that dovetails with my AIM list (thus a person is online, not just a random handle I scratch my head to recall), written some short essays and started notes on some longer ones, got some music in order, and even filed web page bookmarks in a useful way. It's 2 am and I'm typing on a text editor that wraps lines and checks my spelling on the fly. I'm sitting at the couch and not thinking about what needs fixing.
I'm worried, folks. I could easily turn back into a Mac person. The whole reason I got obsessed with computer hardware was my inability to get writing done. Now I'm writing. I can stop giving excuses for stuff. ( Elucidation. )
I got more work done on this laptop in the past three weeks than I had on my main computer in half a year. I've sorted a bunch of email, set up a small but growing address book that dovetails with my AIM list (thus a person is online, not just a random handle I scratch my head to recall), written some short essays and started notes on some longer ones, got some music in order, and even filed web page bookmarks in a useful way. It's 2 am and I'm typing on a text editor that wraps lines and checks my spelling on the fly. I'm sitting at the couch and not thinking about what needs fixing.
I'm worried, folks. I could easily turn back into a Mac person. The whole reason I got obsessed with computer hardware was my inability to get writing done. Now I'm writing. I can stop giving excuses for stuff. ( Elucidation. )
