2006
crushed by the wheels of industry
maura @ 8:37 pm
The world* cannot invent a cheap, sturdy, lightweight, ecopowered laptop soon enough. Yeah, I know what you’re thinking: quit yer whinin’ cowgirl, at least you have a laptop. But tomorrow I have a meeting in the city and schoolwork to do as ever, so I have to schlepp it all over the place: on the bus to take Gus to school, on the subway into Manhattan, to three locations in the Village, then back to get Gus from school and back on the bus home. Oy.
* or MIT
I have this weird paranoia today that all machines are against me, or at the very least about to gang up on me soon. The car, which has had this occasional, heart-skipping, I’m-not-going-to-start-on-you thing for years now, seems to have kicked it up a notch and came very close to not starting after I picked Gus up from school today. Probably it needs a new battery — the current one is I think 6 yrs old?** Older than Gus, at least. Of course we have no idea where to get us a battery here in ye olde city. The last one was purchased + installed at Sears while we were visiting my family in the wilds of Delawhere.
** more fodder for why we should not even have a car, which I still plan to whine post about someday soon
Then this evening I decided that the freezer was making a weird noise, and the dishwasher changed it’s whiny tone a few weeks ago. And sometimes the washer has a high-pitched buzz. The former appliances are 6 yrs old, the latter, 7-ish. How long do appliances last, anyway? And what is the likelihood that every machine we own will crap out at the same time?
THIS, my friends, is why we should never ever buy a house.
