Well, just as the title says. I built myself a portable desktop computer and it works very well. I was using it to type this, and I'm using it right now to post this journal.

I bet some of you are wondering exactly what a "portable desktop computer" really is. It is, basically, a giant laptop computer, too big to sit on the user's lap (unless, perhaps, with some such computers, the user happens to be a large man). My portable computer is too large to sit on anyone's lap while in use, and probably not very comfortable to have on one's lap at all. I don't know for sure, because I've never set it on my lap for any reason yet, but it's pretty darn heavy. It certainly can't be used on one's lap, because most of its weight is in the rear and it would fall off backwards. I built it to be pretty sturdy, but I don't want to find out if it's strudy enough to survive being dropped!

What does it look like? Well, if you can picture a large electric typewriter with a flat-screen computer monitor sitting on top, you have a pretty good idea. Except typewriters' bodies aren't made out of angle iron and scrap sheet metal, as the body (or frame, if you prefer) of my computer is.

This computer runs Windows XP Professional, version 2002, service pack 2. I only realized that I'd built something obsolete after I'd already built it. Good thing I happen to like obsolete technology! I mean it too. I listen to records--yes, vinyl records!--whenever I can (unless I happen to want to listen to the radio instead). Unfortunately my family's only working record player is in the basement, and is far too big to carry or move around alll the time. If my vacuum-tube radio worked (and could recieve FM) it would, most of the time, be the only radio I'd choose to listen to. Whenever I type anything that doesn't have to be sent somewhere electronically, I use a typewriter. Unless I'm typing a resume. If I could type this journal on a typewriter, I would (though computers sure are nice when you make a mistake in your typing). But I digress.

Back to the computer.

So here I am today at the library, and I'm FINALLY online! It's been over a year since I went online with my own computer. I have just updated my virus protection and I'm all ready to post this journal (as soon as I finish it, anyway). And I think we'll have internet service at home again soon--possibly as soon as Dad gets his computer to the shop to get the virus in it removed. I'll let you all know when that happens

Go ahead and post comments on this journal if you want to, or on anything else I post. I love comments, and Dad sometimes lets me borrow his cell phone to go online, so I do get on Fur Affinity a bit even without proper internet service to a computer. Plus, his cell phone can also be used as a Wi-Fi router, and now that I have the necessary software to use my Dad's USB Wi-Fi adapter (which he lent me today), maybe he'll let me use that at home sometimes too.

I guess that's all the news this cougar has for now!

~Redstripe Cougar