MY name's Jai, and I've got a problem...

[tyggerjai]

bunnikins and I have this couply joke. Whenever I mention hardware, and especially the acquisition thereof, she looks at me and says "You have enough computers.". And I ham it up, and look all confused at the mention of "enough" in the context of "computers.". Um. At least, I've always assumed it wa a joke....

I found a computer tonight.
Just lying around with a few others, in the computer room.
I think I remember it - I think it's the machine formerly known as lioness, before I decided 166 MHZ was overkill for the gateway. But I'd *forgotten* it.

In the back of my mind I always know (or thought I knew) what I own, whether working (main desktop, bedroom desktop, main server, secondary server, gateway, the laptop), potentially working (HP9000, the Indys, a power Mac, a Mac Classic, the Amiga 1200, the spare pentium), or b0rken ( 3 Sun SLC/ELCs, the IPX, the Amiga 500, the other indy ... you get the picture).

But I've missed one. All this time. The more I look at it, the more sure I am that it's the old lioness. And I dimly recall replacing lioness, so I must just have not mentally recycled the box into "potentially working."

I suspect this means I'll be politely asked to get rid of one.
MYself, I reckon it's proof that the more you have, the more they tend to blend into the background. If I had 100, bunnikins wouldn't actually notice any of them as individual computers. This, I think, is a strategy worth pursuing...

sol.
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