Today I Love My Backup Computer

Today I love my backup computer, also known as my traveling computer because it is fairly lightweight compared to the main system I use. I love that my main system can go to the shop and get repaired without me being sidelined from my work. I love that my backup is different enough from my main system that I never forget that I’m on a different system. I love that it is the quieter one and usually sits in my office on my desk and helps me record the radio show because it doesn’t make any noise while I’m recording. I love that it can sit for weeks on my desk and never complain and then when I need it it’s all ,”Let’s go!” I love how determined it seems to be. I love when I can just pick it up, pack it up, and count on it to boot up and go, which is what it is doing right this instant, going like it was doing this all along. I love that I have this luxury to keep working and I love that enough of my work is in a cloud somewhere that I can pick up and go no matter where I am and no matter what system I’m using at the time. I love that I write these posts at the site that they are published on and that the work I do on the owensoundhub.org is also server side work and I have a couple of free cloud accounts where I keep other projects as well so I’m good to roll at a moments notice and with whatever system I can get my hands on.

Today I love being in my Wednesday office because that’s part of my routine. I love hanging in the café and hearing snippets of conversation from this table or that and treating it all like these are my patients and so I keep their conversations to myself. I love sitting here and putting my head down and getting entranced by my work and then raising my head to discover that the landscape has changed, the people all went away and new ones showed up and I find that funny. I love how immersed I can get in my work, especially since I can also become distracted and then I’m in a situation where I have to go like a scalded cat to catch up.