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I really have to wonder if it’s coincidence that Funky Winkerbean and For Better or For Worse are each apparently about to shuffle their respective near-death characters off this mortal coil? Read both of today’s installments, with pithy gallows-humor comment, here.
UPDATE: I should note that I’ve found the Winkerbean storyline very deftly handled and very touching. I don’t really have much more to say about it than that.
Unidentified Earth 18 has at last been Identified: it’s the municipal elevator in Oregon City, Oregon. This elevator is operated by the city of Oregon City (near Portland) as a connector between parts of the central business district that are literally separated by a cliff. I remember riding it once with my parents, when we went to Oregon City for some reason.
The identifying commenter, Seamus (whom I know as Shawn — what gives?), wins all the Quatloos that would have been awarded to the people who have already identified Unidentified Earth 19. I guess that one was too easy.
You can see here one reason I’ve been incommunicado the last day or two. These two boxes of wonderment arrived via courier guy yesterday. What could be inside? Why, my new Dell Inspiron laptop! I’ll be making payments on this thing for the next couple of years, but it will hopefully jumpstart my productivity, since I’ll be able to do writing stuff at my desk other than longhand work. (Not that I’m abandoning longhand work, but our family computer is located in a spot that’s not conducive to heavy writerly concentration.)
My new machine has a Wi-Fi card, so I can take it to Borders or Starbucks or even other locations of The Store to go online. I’m not buying a wireless router for home because I figure one computer online at home is enough. It’s also got a 180 GB hard drive, lots of memory, and a decent video card. It’s pretty much got exactly what I need it to have for the jobs I need it to do — it’s not a gaming system, for instance. I’ve already installed OpenOffice and Firefox on it. Windows Vista will take a bit of getting used to, but so far, so good.
Wow, a cell phone two weeks ago, and now a laptop: I’m technological!
