Yes, before we saw stellar_dust back to Chicago, she dragged me to the computer store, and I bought a new laptop, because my old one had started randomly freaking out on me just the night before.

Of course, after we got back from dropping her off at the airport, I popped the case on the old one and it was exactly what I thought - she'd sabotaged one of my RAM sticks. :P You could see right where it had been damaged! (It must have been sabotage, the timing was just too coincidental to her deciding I needed to buy a new one.) So the old one got new (and twice as large!) memory from the Magic Sack o' RAM, and now she's working better than ever!

I've never bought a new computer while the old one was still mostly functional. It's strange. I am enjoying playing with the shiny new one, but have absolutely zero temptation to move to using her as my primary machine. She is a Lenovo that was on sale for $400 including tax, which the saleperson recommended after I showed him the condition my old one was in and he laughed at me a lot. Her name is Eluned, following my standard naming convention.

Of course, it doesn't help that the new one has ( Windows 8 )


(In the meantime I have declared amnesty on even attempting to read even the limited amount of yuletide that was written for/by people on my friendslist. Just too much! Now I will have wonderful gems of stories in small fandoms that I've never read before, waiting for me to stumble on them all year.)

Also also! The Psychic Wolves for Lupercalia fest is back. Hooray! I was hoping it would be! Now I just have to decide whether to finish something I started for last year, or do something completely new and even more cracked (proposition: write A/B/O verse + psychic wolves where the wolves are completely confused by this weird sexual dominance hierarchy thing the humans think is so important.)