Again, time is not on my side

I apologise again that this isn't the post I had planned for tonight. This was originally going to be a post that was delayed from yesterday but, owing to the fact that I am being rushed to bed because of a need to get up early tomorrow morning, I don't really have the time to write it out.

As I sit here, I have an iMac in front of me, a Pocket PC and an old laptop to my left and an external hard drive to my right. The whirring of the hard drive indicates that it is progressing in its task of moving several hundred megabytes of files, taken from the iMac, on to the laptop, from where they can be put on the PPC's SD card. And that's just on one desk. I am the uber-geek. P|-|34r me.

Sorry, reading too many early Megatokyo strips recently. Anyway, all this transferring from stationary to portable (the laptop hasn't been portable since my brother spilled water on it several years ago and fried the battery) is in preparation for a journey tomorrow up to Edinburgh for a Chemistry competition. The excitement never stops, huh?

Trying to find a meaning in this post has led me to think about just how dependent I am on gadgetry for my entertainment. I am rarely without either my Pocket PC or my DS and even then I tend to have my Game Boy micro fully charged and waiting in my pocket. Curiously, I have got by as a gadget freak without a mobile phone. I still don't know where I'm going with this post, other than making the point that if I'd lived in the past, I would have spent most of my life being bored out of my skull.

This post has kind of been about me but I promise I'll have some musings on a completely different topic tomorrow. Unless I feel like ranting about the Chemistry stuff. And if I manage to get that English essay I need to do written. Weird as it may seem, I kind of like working under this unpredictable self-scheduling thing. But that's a post for another time.