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July 22, 2008
Annual Leave
Over the last 18 months my laptop has worked phenomenally hard and endured extensive use both on battery and mains power. It has travelled many thousands of miles, usually in a rucksack, by multifarious modes of transport as diverse as skateboard, train, cycle and car.
It has had open-case surgery three times and also bares the scars of encounters with walls, eccles cakes, floors and children. The laptop has been deployed in challenging circumstances such as, perched in the luggage rack of an inter-city train, on the floor outside a building that I was locked out of, and on a hillside in the Malverns. It has also had to cope with inaccurate spelling, sloppy syntax and amateurly coded html.
My laptop has therefore applied for (and been granted) two and a half weeks annual leave with effect from 5pm today. This seems a fair reward for such faithful service over long hours in demanding and ever changing circumstances.
Sadly this means no blogging but the Laptop will be back in action in mid August and Youthblog will, once more, at least illuminate screens if not minds.
Posted by ian at July 22, 2008 3:25 PM
Comments
Well I still think you should get a Mac - but heck what would I know ;o)
Posted by: Simon at July 22, 2008 3:48 PM
I think you ought to get a Mac too!!
Posted by: Dot at July 22, 2008 10:23 PM
Dot and Simon,
My laptop has only just gone on holiday and you want me to make it redundant?
Posted by: Youthblog at July 23, 2008 7:06 AM
You should definitely get a mac, then when your old one comes back from Holiday, dump it. You know it's right.
Posted by: Mark at July 23, 2008 11:02 AM
enjoy the time of oh dear laptop, mine had a fortnight off and came back to me as it was a new computer altogether...
actually, as it was the logic board that was replaced, it WAS a new computer...
Ian, are you belting this year? I'm heading over to the belt and hanging about with a group for a couple of weeks in the UK, thought I might look at bumping into you there or abouts...
Posted by: darren Wright at July 24, 2008 4:19 AM
Darren,
yep, me and the laptop will be at Greenbelt. I look forward to meeting you either there or elsewhere. E-mail me and I'll send you my mobile number.
Posted by: Youthblog at July 24, 2008 9:26 AM