A Bluestocking Knits

Blackbird requests our computer for "Show and Tell Friday" this week.

I am something of a computer ignoramus, so I leave the hardware decisions to Bluestocking Tech Support (i.e., David).  For our relocation to Hong Kong last year, he bought this reconditioned IBM ThinkPad, mostly because he knew that we were going to have a very small flat to live in, and a laptop certainly doesn’t take up much room!  He also rationalized that I would be able to take the laptop on genealogy research trips once we came home, although that hasn’t materialized yet, since after a virus scare we’re not using the big desk computer atal.

I miss my ergonomic keyboard, but the laptop is nice, I must say.  It amazes me that it is more powerful than the big desk one.  (Someone commented to Blackbird that she looked forward to using a laptop on the couch or in bed, but I must warn you that this thing is hot, and I don’t mean style-wise this time.  I always had to put a throw pillow underneath it, to keep the heat from the fan from scorching my legs!)