October 3rd, 2024:

Yaaaaaawwwwwwwnnnn...

This probably won't be my most coherent of posts (are any of them, 
really?).  I was up well past midnight this morning, hacking away on one 
of my RetroChallenge projects (my Powerbook Duo 280c), which probably 
wasn't the best idea as I had to be up at 5:30am today.

I'm on no sleep.  I tossed and turned for an hour, falling asleep for 
twenty minutes at a time, with visions of that stupid Powerbook running 
through my head.  Part of the insomnia is excitement - the idea of 
restoring and upgrading this once powerful little machine and making it 
useful again.  The other part of the insomnia is anxiety - the sheer 
amount of work involved to make this once powerful little machine useful 
again.

But... meh.  I've done it before, I'll do it again.

My wife thinks I'm nuts.  Of course she does.  I'd imagine that's a common 
theme amongst us retrocomputing enthusiasts, spouses who don't see the 
point.  I've fed her my usual line of "Everything was state-of-the-art 
once" and that my older machines are as useful as they ever were... to 
which she usually replies "State-of-the-art decades ago".

Well, I won't argue that... but to me, newer machines just aren't as much 
fun.