Getting Back in Shape

Not me personally, but my office…following the Great Computer Crash and the I-Can’t-Believe-It’s-Not-Covid Scare and the Attack of the Gravity Monster (still healing from that last one), and with the help of the amazing Kate Shull, I am now in possession of the Boxes of Delight.  Two new computers (one for me, one for husband, each chosen to suit our separate preferences.)  Lots of overlap, but I don’t play any games on mine (not even solitaire on mine) and he doesn’t write books on his.  We both spend hours online but do different things.  We both listen to music–different music, mostly.   (Headphones–WONDERFUL)

ANYway.   Since I could not do any of the looking-up-details stuff I normally do before buying a new computer (the  Covid Scare and the crunched bifocals from the Gravity Monster), Kate took care of all that for me,and today we took off to purchase the basic kit.  Tomorrow comes the Day of Wrathful Clearing Space in the study, which is a sort of world-class disaster zone of accumulated stuff.  (the top of the old computer was decorated with a very old 3.5″ floppy drive, a bead dragon, a wood carving of a sea turtle, and a bit of metal trash that looked to me like the perfect junky-old-space thingie.  The desk itself itable that, once I removed the old dead computer…had no clear space at all, as stacks of pens, pencils, paper scraps, sticky notes, envelopes covered with enigmatic notes (all vitally important) and other stuff spread out to fill the openings.   Favorite rocks, some books, some magazines, some boxes holding thumb drives, camera cards, “special” notes, ink cartridges for dead printers, notebooks with vital information not found anywhere else, doodles that specially pleased me, notes made during recent (mostly) phone calls, CD cases, some full and some empty (reminds me to tell Kate) that the old machine has my best CD of the Faure Requiem *in the now-non-functional CD drive!)

The narrow side table that fits beside the table (making an L) ia equally junky.

My nose, with a thick blood scab on the tip, is beginning to itch as lesser bits of blood dry out and pull away from new skin underneath. Inside, as well.   I am slightly less gory than I was last Saturday and Sunday and into Monday when I went to vote.  On Sunday (sewn up, but still looking awful) I was just able to drive the second car back from the airport.  It exhausted me.   On Monday, R- drove me to the early voting location; voting and talking to the election judges exhausted me.  Today, I was able to drive about 45 mile round trip (probably that because some wandering through the wrong mall’s parking lot was involved) and hold my brain mostly together in the store, and I found *that* exhausting.  I keep hitting some of the stitched in my lip, near my nose wrong and that still HURTS.  Some blood has flaked off, leaving very pink shiny new skin behind.  Prebumably, by the time we have both new computers in, on, loaded with the requisite software, I’ll have the stitches out, be able to eat normally, do my teeth normally, and drive as far as I care to without having to crash for a couple of hours afterward.

So what IS the new stuff in the two boxes in the living room?   Two Dell desktops (one for each of us, with subtle differences) .  We like laptops.  Our existing displaya and keyboards will be fine for now.

 

3 thoughts on “Getting Back in Shape

  1. Glad you are getting better after attacking Mother Earth.. Good for the new computers – I would have preferred Apple products but you should have what you want and need. And it is nice to start with a new machine. Yea for you and your spouse.

    From up her in rainy New Hampshire

  2. Yay for Kate!

    You *may* find an un-(or lightly scented) moisturiser helpful for the scabs, the thickest one you have or can find, it should ease the itching. From personal experience (so clearly take with that in mind) when you are home at home, I have found using a far thicker layer than one would normally , not rubbing it in, then gently wiping off and replacing every four hours really helpful. For me it completely stops the itching, keeps the new skin soft so it doesn’t get too tight, and helps the edges of the scab come off without pulling at the working scab. I say “when you are at home” as having a layer of moisturiser on looks bleeding ridiculous ;-).

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