A Road Less Travelled

I am not a geek. I am so much not a geek that I mock all geeks and geekishness. However, there are some times where it would be inappropriate not to geek-out. And my mother taught me to act appropriately wherever I am. So, you will now be forced to listen to my geek-out.

I am writing this post from the dining room table. Why am I writing this post from the dining room table?, you ask. Because I can. Yesterday my beautiful, beautiful new laptop arrived at my front door. Last night Seth did his IT, geek thing to it and now I can write blog posts from the dining room. Hooray!

You should know that the laptop thing was my idea first and that Raquel stole it from me. She just managed to implement it before I could.

The reason I got the laptop is almost as exciting as the laptop itself, but a little scarier. I am going to take the stories I write and try to turn them into something good instead of something good enough. It was getting very difficult to elbow out some room at the family computer to type my stories and edit them. Also, it might be quieter and easier to focus at our computer if I moved it to Grand Central Station. Hence the laptop that I can move to my room if need be. I am hoping it will bolster my confidence in my writing to be able to focus long enough to put more than two words together at a go.

Looking back over what I’ve written I realize it wasn’t a very good geek-out. There was no technical jargon impossible for the layman to understand. There weren’t even many exclamation points. Well, what can I say? I guess I’m just not a very good geek.