HIPPIE Is Dying

I fear that my loyal laptop, HIPPIE, is not long for this world. Soon he will be shooting through that invisible techno bridge, to live on a big data farm upstate.

HIPPIE has not really recovered from his near-drowning, when I spilled my morning medication water across his keyboard. A full red Solo cup!!! Oh, I thought I had drained and dried him out. But now HIPPIE is overheating. It started a couple days ago.

BLACK SCREEN OF DEATH!

Then a message on a DOS screen upon restart. I swear it said HIPPIE had reached 900 degrees! Wouldn't that set my wooden kitchen table on fire? And my lying pants? Perhaps I misread it. Seems that while I might be comfortable computing on the surface of the sun, roasting my achy knees... HIPPIE, himself, would not.

I seem to have about 2 hours before HIPPIE gets hot under the keyboard. I hear the fan running, but I suppose it's not effective.

NOW, today, HIPPIE has a new old idiosyncrasy. The space bar is cantankerous. That happened right after the near-drowning. Went away. and is back. You think you're typing right along, but then see you've created a 237-letter word. It's slow going when you have to watch what you're typing onscreen. And double- or quadruple-hitting the space bar before it works. Plus backspacing when you move on too fast.

I need to tell The Pony to bring out the "new" computer we got for me two Christmases ago.

I'll leaveyou with an exampleoftypingalong whileI think the space barisworking normally...