New Year, new laptop

About 3 weeks ago, I came back to a seemingly frozen laptop.  The mouse was unresponsive, as was the keyboard.  No biggie, I thought and force rebooted it.  That's when it stopped loading up at all.  It would power up, light up, but never boot up.

Thankfully, the hard drive was just fine.  After getting an enclosure for it and a new laptop, I'm pretty much back where I started.  But it feels sad to let go of my laptop of the last 5 years.  Interesting, but when I get new things, they feel like toys, exciting, but not emotional.  But when I'm parting with them after our time together, it feels like I'm losing a very helpful friend.

So here's a list of some of the things that the old laptop helped me accomplish:

• rejuvenate my interest in drawing/painting
• started me on my screen writing project
• helped me research macarons
• helped me learn to silkscreen and order all the supplies I needed
• helped me start Eu Care
• helped me start planning my wedding

Thanks old friend.  You did well.
And hello new laptop.  I'm sure we'll get along great.  I hope you like projects, because I like to stay busy.  Here's to doing great things!