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apple blossoms, apple computer, macbook, motherboard, spring, technology, technophobe, troglodyte, video card
new boss meets the old boss…
In case you were wondering where I might have been all these days, well, did you know that on older MacBooks the video card attaches to the motherboard and that when the video card goes bad, the motherboard though still good is now worthless? Yep, I did not know that either, though I have since found out about this and much other arcane trivia regarding both my now old and now new computers.
meet the new boss…
same as the old boss…
To be honest, the Gentleman Farmer does few things well and computers are not one of them. Slowly, but surely, while my face basks in the glow of computer light, I am making friends with the newest addition and expense to Totem Hall.
Somewhere, someone promises improved productivity and instant enlightenment, right?
I just noticed the blurry image of my old and now very defunct computer, which is somewhat apropos, no?
just because it’s spring and I love apple blossoms…
The Gentleman Farmer 
Totem Hall has apple blossoms? I think Bebe and I need a roadtrip down to the Florida/Georgia border.
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My Dear GSL
Your rooms are ready, your drinks are chilled, your food prepared. We just lack the two of you to make it all complete, to make it all perfect…
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Just trying to decide on shoes…something for riding and hiking and driving the tractor (if you allow me). I assume it is warm enough to go barefoot for the evening drinking and storytelling?…..
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My Darling Bebe
Indeed, it is, in fact barefoot is best for dipping into the pool while sitting at the edge while drinking while storytelling….
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I hate computers. and cell phones. and tablets. None of them seem to work the way the ought. And they cost an arm and a leg and only last a year. Except for this laptop-I am on my third year despite the fact that the impertinent little sales girl I bought it from told me I could get a year out of it. She was so condescending when I said “That’s all?!”
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My Bestest Bebe
You are so right about technology. Are we getting so old that we just huff and puff about the way it used to be before our children texted their conversations to us? For me, though I do love the benefits of a wired in lifestyle, for instance, our correspondence, I suspect that there is a significant out of balance developing in my own private Idaho. Back in the early nineties, I was valuing privately held corporations with a bunch of other young hot-blooded hotshots. For all of us newly minted financiers, one of our power symbols, one of our totems, was the Day-Timer. With the advent of Outlook, I let my meticulous note-taking fall by the wayside, no more pencils for me. No jaded by the computer twenty plus years later, and burned by one too many crashes, and lost data., I found myself on the Day-Timer site wondering if I could still go there…
One other quick note, what is it about techno snobs, particularly techno snobs who are working as sales clerks? I mean, really dude, or dudette, why are you copping this attitude with me, look where the hell you work…
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Glad to hear your well! I just started having some laptop problems myself, so I may be on vacation soon till I get back from a trip! I know nothing about computers. Now gin is another story.
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My Dear Mistress
Oh, you sly little devil, indeed I much prefer gin (and it is getting to be season) to computers any old day. Lord, what are we to do with all our techno toys, truly damned if we do and damned if we don’t. I certainly hope that whatever issues bedevil your laptop are easily resolved with the most minimal of pain thus leaving that extra bit of money for that last little drink, or that perfect got to have outfit, or that so cute date you’ve been meaning to have…
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My MacBook is giving me death rattles and I’m so loathe to upgrade!
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Dearest Jen
My goodness, how I empathize with you, when my blah blah attached to the whatcha-ma-call-it fried, I had not even made the first of my Christmas payments, which included two new MacBooks for my sons. It gets to the gist of it all on how we can possibly live without it yet somehow we managed to live without it and possibly could still live without it. Though I must admit the pen pal friendships developed because of my being wired in and up would be hard to forgo. I just hope that your MacBook decides to live for you another day, and then from there another week, another month, and another year.
Oh, and please, do not forget to back-up your data! Just saying…
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