The tethered life
rzwitserloot posted in me on May 25th, 2006

I’m still anxiously awaiting delivery of my MacBook (also known as ‘GlossBook’amongst some). TNT’s track and trace is brilliant in how it says absolutely nothing useful so I have no idea if they’ll make the original planned delivery time of tomorrow.

 It’s interesting how so many things just become too much of a drag to run without your favourite environment. News? Net reading any of it - my newsreader is in storage. Mail? Sort of, but only once a day through gmail. Programming? Can’t be bothered to set it all up for just a few days layover.

Here’s hoping the MacBook arrives soon. I’m starting to show withdrawal symptoms. I’m certainly even crazier than usual, apparently. In this way having a notebook is more annoying than the usual desktop. I don’t run anything across web services (with a notebook there’s no point in the portability aspect), and I’m used to having my stuff with me all the live long day, from trains to friends houses to something as simple as going out to a movie or some such. Discussion turns to something that I can show on the notebook, and, voila, there it is.

 As with so many things, once you’re used to a thing, it’s very very difficult to let go of it.