My own personal hell
Aug. 25th, 2003 09:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
resonant[breathes a big sigh of relief]
At last! I have power! (Well, my laptop has power. But it feels like mine.) Thanks be to the relevant deities.
I think laptops must be in the purview of Hermes. They're mysterious, communication-related, and portable.
It was awful, having a perfectly functional computer and not being able to use it. Watching the charge on that last battery creeping down, down, down -- it was like watching your room slowly fill with water.
In other news, I built a hell.
At last! I have power! (Well, my laptop has power. But it feels like mine.) Thanks be to the relevant deities.
I think laptops must be in the purview of Hermes. They're mysterious, communication-related, and portable.
It was awful, having a perfectly functional computer and not being able to use it. Watching the charge on that last battery creeping down, down, down -- it was like watching your room slowly fill with water.
In other news, I built a hell.
Ex-boss 2 (the Space Cadet)
Circle I Limbo
Ex-boss 1 (the Space Alien), Quark Inc. programmers
Circle II Whirling in a Dark & Stormy Wind
Women who can't talk about anything but dieting, Phil Collins
Circle III Mud, Rain, Cold, Hail & Snow
People who drive slow in the passing lane
Circle IV Rolling Weights
Guys who go up to women they don't know and say, "Smile!"
Circle V Stuck in Mud, Mangled
River Styx
People who voted for Jesse Helms
Circle VI Buried for Eternity
River Phlegyas
SUV drivers, Spammers
Circle VII Burning Sands
The Fox News team, Evangelizers
Circle IIX Immersed in Excrement
Child abusers
Circle IX Frozen in Ice