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July 11, 2008
As I continue to write this list a part of me is glad that I don’t have my laptop with me because I have yet to buy a new battery since my original battery doesn’t hold a charge that lasts longer than 10 minutes (on a good day). Of course there’ll always be that part of me that will always prefer to have my laptop with me at all times so I can check emails, blog, and read other’s blogs. But it was great being able to get some thoughts down to paper.
Something can really be said for good ol’ Pen & Paper and your own handwriting. However ugly from the road’s rocky-smoothness guiding your hand in directions it doesn’t want to go. In fact it seems the more the world seems to spin towards the electronic word, the more I seem to want to be able to sit down and write things down the old fashioned way.
I would hate to see a world where no one wrote anything by hand anymore. Our handwrtiing style says so much about who we are, who would be become if we stopped handwriting?
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Going to keep reading up on this! I have about 20 drafts for my vacation in que. Still working on my DC trip! haha..
I bought my laptop battery on eBay at third of its retail price.
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The world would so suck if people stopped writing things down.
I really enjoying writing handwritten letters, and postcards. I can’t imagine doing it any other way.
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Chris - I only went for 3 days and I have so much to write about! I can only imagine how much reading you have to do! Looking forward to it though!
Michael - And you haven’t had any problems with it? Also, one other issue I have with ebay is it’s rare for me to find someone who lives in Canada that’s selling and most Americans rip me off with S&H. I’ve had to pay more for S&H from the U.S. that England more times than not! Even if I ask for something to be shipping via regular post and not express. How ridiculous is that?
Monique - I agree! I have these friends who are backpacking through South East Asia at the moment and I’ve asked them to pick up one postcard from all the places they’ve visited. Though I told them not to post them and just bring it back with them instead because I don’t want to risk having the various mail systems eat it up!
I love my laptop, but nothing can beat writing things down with pen and paper. Whenever I travel I keep a travel diary
I envy those people that can write with their hands and paper, I can’t do that
The last time I tried that, I can’t find a word to write, when my mind is already running, it is my hand that cannot work anymore. That says that I can’t live without my laptop.
Try finding a Canadian seller… eBay is worldwide. Yup, no problems with the battery.
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Jazz - There’s just something soothing about writing while you’re in a moving vehicle isn’t it?
Manilenya - Awh, with a little practice I’m sure you could get to writing better and faster?