My laptop has decided that it is a good time to start not booting properly (as I mentioned yesterday). As a result of this and of the holidays, Bad Comics will be on hold until probably the first week of January or so. Thank you for your patience and forbearance in these trying times and please have a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
I typically carry around two notebooks on any given day. They are of very different character.
The larger (and significantly more expensive) of the two is my notebook computer. I use a Dell Vostro 2510 which I’ve just had a quick look for on Dell’s site. Apparently they no longer produce them which makes mine a little bit special. It’s red. It only ever came in red. I don’t think I know anybody else with a red computer so it is pretty neat. The guts of it are a 2.0 GHz dual core processor, 3 GB of RAM, 160 GB hard drive and an Nvidia 8400M GS 256 MB video card. It does rather a good job of running Team Fortress 2 and Battlefield 2 (the two games I’m into heavily right now). I was going to recommend it to other people but, as noted, Dell no longer sells it. I think they’ve probably just rolled it into the 1510 or 1520 line.
The other notebook is a more traditional sort of thing. It’s a Xonex rü notebook in chocolate brown. I picked up a three pack for the same price as a single Moleskine notebook of comparable size (though lacking the cachet of the Moley brand name). I got a square ruled (graph paper), standard lined and unlined, all in the same colour. The lined is being used as a fuel and maintenance log in the car and I just finished up using the square ruled book at the beginning of April. I am really liking the blank pages of the unlined book and I don’t imagine I will go back to ruled pages any time soon. I use it to keep to do lists, notes on sermons or things I hear on the radio and I’ve done a bit of drawing. I’m keeping a calendar in the back few pages as well. The rü books have a pocket in the back (where I kept my library card until fairly recently) and I’ve added a few things. I stapled in a piece of ribbon to use as a book mark and glued a small piece of sandpaper into the back cover that I can use to sharpen my sketching pencil (which is really a Staedtler drafting lead holder). I’ve also pasted a small calendar (apart from the one I’m keeping in the back pages, this one has just the dates with no space to write anything) in for quick/easy reference (especially when I want to know what day of the week somebody’s birthday will be).
