The very large, very old iMac that I thought was going to die two years ago finally bit the dust. I thought if I needed a new graphics card, it was a matter of the repairman popping one in. Alas, it’s soldered to the motherboard and it’s not cost-effective to replace.

I took a look at how many hours a day I spend seated, and I’ve been keen on using my standing desk again, where the now-dead computer was in residence. The standing desk has fallen by the wayside, which I can tell by the way the room seemed to clutter up while I wasn’t looking. I don’t want to move my big graphics computer there, since it’s impractical to stand while I’m working on graphics. But since I’ve got a billion computers, I figured I’d set up something else for now.

There’s a part in one of the early PsyCop stories where Vic starts his crappy laptop and it downloads updates for half an hour. Well, evidently I’m using Vic’s laptop now. Not only did it download updates for half an hour last night, but this morning I accidentally uninstalled Scrivener when I meant to be uninstalling the old beta versions of the program…and then it effing updated anti-virus for another half hour. AAAAGH.

I think it’s done now. One can only hope.