Retire one VAIO...
Jan. 10th, 2004 10:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpThere comes a time one must grab the bull by the tail and squarely face the situation.
In my case, in the recent past I've spent time getting the VAIO to simply boot to a stable opening screen, which could be considered - on the one hand - as lost income, since my efforts were directed toward getting the machine to work and not translating. On the other hand, if we assume lost time really isn't worth money, because I'd end up spending however many hours it'd take to finish a translation no matter how many distractions were thrown in my direction, one could put off retiring ellroy just about forever, or until the machine simply refused to fire up.
That very nearly happened today. In addition to simply losing about 1000 words of translation, I spent an additional 3 hours trying to get the thing to boot again. I suspect the fan may have seized again and caused the CPU to overheat.
In any event, I got a job last night, due Monday, and I've been trying to work on it on the old VAIO.
Ah! You noticed I call it the "old" VAIO.
Yes, I am the proud owner of a new, smaller, sleeker VAIO, whose name is proust (a joke, I think; a whimsical interpretation of à la recherche du temps perdu), and I hope this one lasts at least three years, the way its predecessor did.
Cheers...
In my case, in the recent past I've spent time getting the VAIO to simply boot to a stable opening screen, which could be considered - on the one hand - as lost income, since my efforts were directed toward getting the machine to work and not translating. On the other hand, if we assume lost time really isn't worth money, because I'd end up spending however many hours it'd take to finish a translation no matter how many distractions were thrown in my direction, one could put off retiring ellroy just about forever, or until the machine simply refused to fire up.
That very nearly happened today. In addition to simply losing about 1000 words of translation, I spent an additional 3 hours trying to get the thing to boot again. I suspect the fan may have seized again and caused the CPU to overheat.
In any event, I got a job last night, due Monday, and I've been trying to work on it on the old VAIO.
Ah! You noticed I call it the "old" VAIO.
Yes, I am the proud owner of a new, smaller, sleeker VAIO, whose name is proust (a joke, I think; a whimsical interpretation of à la recherche du temps perdu), and I hope this one lasts at least three years, the way its predecessor did.
Cheers...
