"Be cool, dude..."

My laptop continues to subsist on quasi-life support. It works, but every boot-up could be its last. Preceding each boot is an error message warning that hard drive failure is imminent, and I should back up my crap and get a new hard drive. Better advice was seldom given.

The thing reminds me of the friend we all had (or were) in high school, who no matter how loaded he was, no matter how slobbering, falling-down wasted he found himself, could always pull it together for the 35 seconds it took for the cop or school administrator to walk by, before degenerating back to the stumbling, poorly arranged mass of cells he had worked so hard to become.

Here's hoping my laptop can hold it together a while longer...