Because TYG bought me one for my birthday. My seven year old laptop is still going strong but it’ll wear out eventually and who knows what the Felon will have done to the price of computers by then (and by the way, thanks Apple shareholders for refusing to drop DEI efforts). Last Friday we went out to the Apple Store at the mall, hit Barnes and Noble, had lunch at California Pizza Kitchen and came home with a 15″ Macbook Air. Bigger screen than its predecessor, more memory. Here she is receiving all the files from my backup drive.
I have gotten into a bad habit of holding whatever I’m eating or drinking too close to the keyboard. I’m determined to avoid that though it’s harder than you think. I sit on the couch with pets around me most of the time I’m working. That means there’s only a limited number of spaces to put my lap desk and my food or tea mug where they won’t rest on a dog or cat and the pets can’t climb on them or knock the tea over. I’ll make it work!
(Plushie contemplates how yummy a sip of tea might taste).
It’s a particular plus that I now have 18 hours of battery life. I can run a long Zoom meeting, watch a movie or two and not worry about power going out. It gives me more flexibility in where I sit, which is handy.
Now, as to work. Once again Local Reporter took up more hours than planned as I covered Carrboro’s work on a new land-development code and plans to make Baldwin Park playground more accessible.
I also took the car in for its mandatory state inspection. Everything’s good but that took up some time too. I did, however, get a good bit of work done on Jekyll and Hyde — research reading, movie watching, writing the text. And over at Atomic Junk Shop I muse about Star Trek‘s prime directive, dystopia and comics artist Mike Sekowsky’s transition to writer-artist. You can see a sample of his work from one of his Wonder Woman stories here (I blogged about it here a few years back).
Trying to up my contributions to the resistance, I contacted Rep. Valerie Foushee to thank her for voting no on the Republican budget and our Senators, Tillis and Budd, to ask them to oppose it (I’m not holding our breath). For the first time ever I wrote to my state-level representative and senator to urge opposition to various Republican bills. I also resumed writing GOTV postcards for Activate America. Very small steps, I know, but it’s not like I know any big steps I can take.
I hope y’all’s week went well. Let’s all have a fabulous weekend, shall we?
