Well so much for having a small baby kitten that would be cute and sleep on my laptop. Now I've got a gigantic teenage cat that envelops my laptop and clogs up its fans.
Gizmo will be celebrating his first birthday on March 23, which in cat years means that he's officially reached adulthood. Good thing he's been neutered already, I'd hate to come home to a bunch of Gizmo's sleeping on my laptop.
So a lot of you probably saw my tweet a few days ago about my laptop overheating, causing me to lose lots of work each time. Frustrating to be sure.
Well long story short I've successfully sold that old clunker for a brand spankin' new Samsung laptop, featuring the new Intel I5 processor and a middle of the road graphics device (Nvidia GeForce 310m). For those that don't speak nerd that means this babies bitchin' fast.
Some other neat features of this bad boy are a Blu-Ray drive and a HDMI port for video out (read: connecting to my HDTV for visual goodness). I've already got everything up and running on this laptop so I'm set for class on Monday.
Oh and I'm actually able to work on Maya animations and advanced Photoshop/Illustrator work with this guy, thank God! I was previously stuck to the art labs at Jacksonville University beforehand.
So I just went through the super joyfull experience of sitting outside my apartment complex waiting for the fire department to shut off what turned out to be a false alarm. Looking back I can honestly tell you that I was only concerned about bringing three things with me to insure that my I would be able to bounce back from having my collective stuff burned to a crisp.
My family (Katie and Gizmo [didn't even think of my poor fish!]), my wallet (ID, credit cards), and lastly my G1 Phone (It never even struck me that maybe I should worry about the portable hard drive with thousands of hours of projects secured within its plastic shell, or for that matter my Alienware computer that cost me $1600).
Now that I'm laying in bed thinking about it, this phone has replaced every electronic device in my life and has become an essential part of my daily routine, and you know what's funny? I could let my G1 burn because I pay for T-Mobile's $5 monthly insurance.
P.S- I'm typing this on my G1, instead of my laptop, huh.
