I’m writing this via my iPhone.

My laptop died six days ago. Today I finally had an inspiration to write here.

Writing, and blogging, by my highly intelligent smartphone is do-able. I guess. I don’t think I can embed links. I could copy and paste, but make it look pretty . . .?

This is no-frills blogging at it’s best.

Happily my lack of laptop hasn’t stopped my Internet social life.

If my mobile was to die or be lost or stolen, then the withdrawal symptoms wouldn’t be pretty.

I took this picture of my desk right before the laptop died. I took it because I wanted to remember the late summer, afternoon light on the wall, the chaos of papers, the VBS craft that will someday be lost to time.

But I may have captured the final moments of an object that feels like an old friend.

New motherboard on order; let’s see if Dell can be resurrected.