Finally. After three seemingly endless months, my laptop is fixed. I’m glad to have it back.

It’s been a tough time without it: we all know internet browsing at work is never as fun, there is the constant threat of someone coming up behind you to ask about that report that was due before lunch while you are sniggering at a particularly ridiculous video of an intrepid Manx on lolcats.

All the more awkward is asking friends if you can use their laptop. It’s a question that makes me feel dirty, almost on a par with asking someone if you can use their toothbrush. As for being the laptop giver, there is something about letting people use your pride and joy. If the laptop is the comfort blanket of the 21st Century, it’s like letting someone wrap themselves in your, well, comfort blanket. Sometimes you can detect a certain hesitancy, the moment where they are weighing up the possibility that you might hit a key and smoke will start billowing out of it, or even worse, that you have absolutely no computer etiquette and will start using the thing as a tennis racket.

Maybe that suspicion is justified. What are we going to do on it anyway? Write up that urgent work report that is due tomorrow by lunch? Not likely is it. What is more likely is that you’ll be on Facebook checking how many people are attending the super-awesome party that you posted, or having a look on Twitter to see what everyone you are following had for dinner. You know, all those things that could wait until later but for some inexplicable reason seem really urgent all of a sudden. So why give your computer to someone else, it’s only wasting time that you could be valuably spending setting up that group for lovers of Coke Zero.

So now everyone has their own laptop. The lounge scene is now one where housemates sit around in silence, the only sound being the tap of keys on the keyboard and the occasional “hehe, nice profile pic”, followed by frantic bandwidth usage as everyone in the room comments on ‘that wicked picture of Kevin’.

Anyway, i’m off for a power-half-hour of FAIL blog lols, later…