Its been almost four days since it gave up. The blue screen with messages (which btw didn't make a whole lot of sense to me) describing what possibly could have gone wrong displayed. But one thing was clear, it couldn't take it no more. Even a couple of hard restarts didn't do the trick this time, the same screen displayed over and over...With no laptop meaning- no YouTube, no Gtalk, no Economist, no Wikipedia, no Email- it appeared to me as if I was castaway from this world. Felt like I was incarcerated though I know I am free. Suddenly days seemed longer with plenty of time to do quality work and so moved things around to fill in the new found time slots and began to read this book "The Kite Runner". It is a father-son-illegal son story set in Kabul and States.
The no laptop day-1 started and ended quite differently. With zero dedicated browsing time , finished about one-third of the book in between my sleeps. Day-2 was different from day-1 too - Played tennis, phoned few friends (TG my phone was working) and completed a good portion of the story. I guess I didn't miss my lost browsing time much on day-2. I was done reading the book the following day. That day I felt like any other normal day, oblivious to the fact that my laptop is dead quite sometime.
In the last, not sure how many years, this is the longest I am with no PC. Very hard to imagine life without it. But honestly the experience was not as bad as I had imagined it would be. The one highlight is the gradual replacement of my browsing time slots with reading. I guess I got used to or may be adapted to the change. Isn't that true we, in fact all living beings must (or willing to) adapt to the changes around them in order to survive. I am no different. I think this is the fastest I have completed reading a story book thanks to my crashed laptop and also to my friend. One thing I realized for sure, laptop or no laptop- Zendagi Migzara....
The no laptop day-1 started and ended quite differently. With zero dedicated browsing time , finished about one-third of the book in between my sleeps. Day-2 was different from day-1 too - Played tennis, phoned few friends (TG my phone was working) and completed a good portion of the story. I guess I didn't miss my lost browsing time much on day-2. I was done reading the book the following day. That day I felt like any other normal day, oblivious to the fact that my laptop is dead quite sometime.
In the last, not sure how many years, this is the longest I am with no PC. Very hard to imagine life without it. But honestly the experience was not as bad as I had imagined it would be. The one highlight is the gradual replacement of my browsing time slots with reading. I guess I got used to or may be adapted to the change. Isn't that true we, in fact all living beings must (or willing to) adapt to the changes around them in order to survive. I am no different. I think this is the fastest I have completed reading a story book thanks to my crashed laptop and also to my friend. One thing I realized for sure, laptop or no laptop- Zendagi Migzara....
