On Signatures, Land Lines, and The Things that Become Anachronisms
23/10/2017
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Arrived home from Melbourne and discovered that something was very wrong with my laptop.
The casing split open; it sparked when I turned it on; the hinges that allowed me to open and close the computer made ominous noises. All things that probably should have worried me more than it does, but I go through laptops the way some people eat popcorn, so I basically unplugged and nodded and revisited my to-do list to catalogue all the things where a web-accessible laptop was an essential tool.
Turns out, there was a lot of stuff, so I did the sensible thing and took it to my local laptop repair place which uses phrases like “48 hour turn-around.”
They took one look and said: good news, it’s cheap to repair.
Bad news, it’ll take us up to two weeks to get in the parts we need.
It’s going to be a tricky couple of weeks.
PeterMBall
Peter M. Ball is a speculative fiction writer, small press publisher, and writing mentor from Brisbane, Austraila. He publishes his own work through Eclectic Projects and works as the brain in charge at Brain Jar Press.
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