I am not one to suffer in silence, nobility of soul was in short supply when I popped out of the mould, but gratitude is one of my salient characteristics. My poor wife has been listening to me grunt incoherently about the absence of the lap top for way too long. She helped me download a few random pictures on her computer at her job to allow me to make a few entries this week. Thanks to Joe in California (in the part of Santa Cruz County not crisped by wildfires) the lap top is back at home and should be up and running as before, perhaps better than before with a new disc drive and heaven knows what improvements. It's been a month but apparently we have lost no files and may have gained some performance according to our Golden State Guru. It is a measure of how pathetic I am but this news has me excited beyond all reasonable measure.
I could make exaggerated claims about the loneliness of life at the end of the road, the isolation of island life in the Florida Keys, but I cannot bullshit. I like wandering the Internet, checking my news, sending e-mails, reading the weather radar, monitoring tropical storm formation and having a reason to take pictures, download them, organize them and write little essays around them.
Its taken me an unconscionable amount of time to get back into the groove of my daily life after my vacation and a large part of that morose aimlessness was the dead laptop. But now it reportedly lives, though I have yet to see it actually in action on the desk at home, and the last jigsaw piece has fallen into place. My life is once again complete. Wife? Check. Bonneville? Check. Friends? Check. Air conditioning? Check. And so it goes.
So now all I have to ask myself is what object of Keys life will be next to fall prey to my lense?
