Replaced By a Younger Model

Freda, my beloved laptop, finally died just before Christmas. Much as I tried hard to resurrect her, and indeed went into denial and claimed that she was ‘just warming up’ when she’d been dead and blank for two hours, I finally had to accept that she was gone.

So, after a short period of mourning, she had to replaced. Brutal I know, but that’s how things are when it comes to computers (regardless of how much personality one might ascribe to them).

Last night therefore saw me braving the hell of PC World in order to have a blind date with Emmett, aka Compaq C310 (catchy!). Luckily Emmett and I hit it off immediately, and I asked him to come home with me. And so, ladies and gents, I would like to formally introduce you to Emmett - silver skinned laptop, wireless internet guru, and master of digital media. Named, of course, for the legendary Emmett ‘Doc’ Brown of Back to the Future - very clever but slightly unstable (true of most computers, non?)…

So, despite a 2 hour relationship counselling session tonight with a very nice counsellor based in Mumbai to cure Emmett’s aversion to connecting to wireless broadband, so far my new relationship is going rather well. I even bought him a red neoprene all-in-one for travelling and a memory stick (hang on, do they do a human version? Because I think He could do with one, especially if I could programme in my birthday and our anniversary…)

Most importantly, however, the good news: Emmett should allow me to blog from in front of the telly in the evenings so you can enjoy my company more often! Well, I hope that’s good news…