Dear Santa

[logansrogue]

Dear Santa...

What I really *really* want for Christmas (actually before Christmas would be GREAT because I'm desperate here) is an old, old laptop from the turn of the millenia or even earlier.

It does not have to play awesome games.
It does not have to have awesome operating power.
I don't CARE what it can and cannot do. (I have a really old nokia mobile phone and it's FINE for me, it rings people and receives calls and I can sms people - all good).

What it must do:

- Run Wordpad
- Run a CD so I can listen to music while I write
- Have a little space for pictures for inspiration and
- Have the standard three or four games on it: Solitaire, Minesweeper and Freecell.

I can't seem to write in on the computer in the kitchen anymore. I need isolation and comfort. Can you imagine me? With my heatpack on my tummy when I'm sore, my laptop on my lap in my room, writing away like a madwoman, churning out fic like nobody's business?

Why have I turned into such a recluse, Santa? Sorry - I'll ask God that one, you're probably not one to know.

Anyway, I've been a *very* good girl this year and I even did the dishes.

All my love, kisses and Santa-lap-hugs,
Nancy. (You know which one).

Comments

[tommmo.livejournal.com]

I think your best bets for that would be either Ebay or one of the computer stuff auctions they have all now and then.

[pooxs.livejournal.com]

I have an old laptop I don't use anymore (I killed the pcmcia slot so it can't connect to the internet so no point using it for me)

its a p3, with only 68mb of ram, and runs win98. however, it has a 6gb hdd, cdrom, microsoft office (word, excel etc), and those games plus kyodai installed.

you can use it for as long as you wish :)

[pooxs.livejournal.com]

oh! i forgot the added bonus! the longer its on the hotter it gets: no need to get up to warm up your heatpack! ;)

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

BWAHahaha! Even better! Does it smell funny when it gets warm? Cause that's when you know it's a good laptop. LOL!

[pooxs.livejournal.com]

uhm, ive never really noticed a smell. it probably smells of my cat - she enjoyed sitting on it, so theres heaps of fur and crap stuck under the keyboard.

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

Oh even better. It'll go with all my stuff - which is also covered in fur and crap. *nods*

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

YOU'D DO THAT FOR ME?! OMG! I LOVE YOU! I REALLY LOVE YOU! *hugs the shit out of you* *flips out with joy*

[pooxs.livejournal.com]

sure *grin* its just sitting on my floor and i never use it, so you may as well :D

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

*bounce bounce bounce bounce bounce* You are the nicest person!!!

[pooxs.livejournal.com]

now how to get the damn thing to you *ponders*

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

Well - when's the next unisfa shindig? Or we can meet for coffee and it can meet my mother's nice laptop bag. *nods* Up to you!

[pooxs.livejournal.com]

well, I'm leaving for Cairns on friday... (for over a week). will sort something out and get back to you :)

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

Cool! :)

[pooxs.livejournal.com]

will be in your area tomorrow (thurs) around 1pm-ish, so I can drop it round then

send me an email - kate.gooding at gmail.com with your address, oh and somewhere for me to leave it if noone is home.

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

And Kyodai is like, my FAVOURITE GAME! *hugs more*

[pooxs.livejournal.com]

*smirk* i thought it was (remembered you saying you had made tilesets for it)

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

I did. Xena ones. And I'm also making a mermaidy one. :)

[pooxs.livejournal.com]

uh, i think its actually 64mb ram. i can never remember. its slow if you want to do anything other than word.

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

It's all good. I just need a portable word processor with mood music and gamie distractions when the going gets tough. :)