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first new computer in more than a decade

the journal of Michael Werneburg

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Kokubunji, 2021.10.09

I've bought a new laptop for the first time in well over a decade. The 2nd hand Lenovo I'm using now has many problems and I've decided to go back to something new primarily because my eyes are going and I'm literally tired of squinting at blurry old screens. So it's back to OSX with a Macbook Air.

We got lucky with finding a fellow who both new a bit of English and really knew his stuff on the sales front. He even accommodated us on the trade-in of the antique Macbook Air we bought for Mari in 2011. We got some ¥5,200 for that trade in.

rand()m quote

It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly; so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat.

—Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.