[二十七] 沒有電腦,該怎麼做?

I promised myself that I wouldn't neglect this blog this time around, yet I havent posted in over a month. (Self inflicted scourging to be delivered at a later time.) That aside, I have a legitimate reason for not writing, other than the usual excuse of having nothing to write about. (Note: Cut number of lashes to be inflicted in half.) You see, my place of residence has not had a consistently working computer in months. Which is to say, the computer we bought at a discount has broken down periodically regardless of having its software wiped and several pieces of hardware replaced three times. Everytime it gets fixed, it breaks down sooner. And I feel terrible for complaining about such a trivial thing (my brain just screams FIRST WORLD PROBLEMS just thinking about it). After all, the library computers often serve me quite well. Yet, I like the feeling of security of a personal laptop. From my personal experiences in life, I have come to realize something. With the (until recently) exception of health insurance, you often get what you pay for. For example, the $5 jeans I usually buy from discount stores last me an average of 6 months before the color and fabric really start to wear. But the quality pants that I've bought before at the price of a slightly larger investment can last well over a year. As of now, the total number of non-crotchless jeans hanging in my closet = 0. And this will totally depend on my financial situation as an out of state student attending the University of California, but I think I would rather buy the more expensive things that will last me a while, but in a smaller amount, than buy supercheapy clothes in bulk, that will last me like a month. On a totally unrelated endtopic, I and my girlfriend have recently been watching the Lord of the Rings trilogy (because she had never seen them before, can you believe this crap??), and up came a scene that has to be one of my favorite quotes from a movie of all time: "Frodo: It's a pity Bilbo didn't kill him when he had the chance. Gandalf: Pity? It was pity that stayed Bilbo's hand. Many that live deserve death. Some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them, Frodo? Do not be too eager to deal out death in judgment. Even the very wise cannot see all ends. My heart tells me that Gollum has some part to play yet, for good or ill before this is over. The pity of Bilbo may rule the fate of many."