Auld Computers Syne

Happy New Year to everyone who recognizes the linear progression of time! 2022 has been a wild one, and like the old saying goes, New Year, Everything I Own Broke And My Whole Family Has Been Sick For Six Months Including Right Now. It’s a challenging thing to draw anything digitally when every piece of technology you interact with fails catastrophically. First my laptop died. Then, my father-in-law’s laptop that I was using died. I dug up my wife’s old college laptop, reinstalled windows, and had just finished downloading the Krita installer when the craziest thing happened. It also died.

So, I’m sitting here, typing this on a very nice, new laptop that I begrudgingly bought after finally accepting that I’m not good enough at soldering to be a real-life techno-scrapper. It’s the surface laptop studio, it was on a great sale, and I honestly love it so far. It turns out that USB-C is pretty cool actually! Due to some weird economic strategy that I can’t possibly hope to fathom, Amazon had the i7 one with the RTX 3050 ti listed for cheaper than the i5 one with integrated graphics too, so I’m a certified mobile gamer now. I simply cannot wait to get absolutely destroyed in Overwatch from the comfort of my dining room table.  

Maybe I’ll actually be able to finish some comics if I can go a few weeks without killing this thing!