Ready to go
Feb. 12th, 2006 11:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ellarienI'm all packed -- I think -- and leaving in half an hour. (Yes, I packed the computer. I'm typing this on the other one.) We'll see how the Butterfly stands up to its first real outing. I discovered yesterday that it shares a flaw with Old Laptop; if the CD drive is overused it goes on strike and stops opening, probably due to overheating. Behemoth doesn't seem to have that problem.
I'm not sure how many more trips my big suitcase is good for. I bought it in 1999, and since then it's done seven transatlantic trips and probably twice as many domestic ones, for varying values of domestic. Half the zipper tags are missing, the stiffening metal is bent on one side, and the wire edging is showing through the plastic at all the corners.
I should have reasonable internet access in Monterey, but time and energy may be a problem. We'll see.
(Monterey! Ocean! I haven't seen the sea up close and personal since ... 1990?)
I'm not sure how many more trips my big suitcase is good for. I bought it in 1999, and since then it's done seven transatlantic trips and probably twice as many domestic ones, for varying values of domestic. Half the zipper tags are missing, the stiffening metal is bent on one side, and the wire edging is showing through the plastic at all the corners.
I should have reasonable internet access in Monterey, but time and energy may be a problem. We'll see.
(Monterey! Ocean! I haven't seen the sea up close and personal since ... 1990?)
