Jeri Smith-Ready

The triumphant return of Natalie T. Steppenwolf

Back in January, I sang a lamentation for my laptop, whose hard drive had crashed. I think the cause was a series of brief power outages/surges during a windstorm (we live on top of a hill and routinely receive gusts of 30 mph).

We saved nearly all of the crucial data, but my laptop needed a new brain. Or heart, or whatever organ corresponds to the hard drive (any guesses from the computer whizzes in the audience?).

Now Lappy is back, with a new name, as promised. She's slow, filthy, hot, and heavy, but she's mine.

Natalie, my sweet Natalie. I can't wait to reload all my music on you so we can Megashuffle our little hearts out. I don't mind how hard I have to hit the 'h' key to get it to work. I don't mind that your fan runs constantly, or that your network card is external and must be removed before placing you, lovingly, in your tote-bag.

The important thing is, we're together again. And that unlike that other laptop I borrowed (really, she meant nothing to me), you have a scroll pad and two Ctrl keys.

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