One Monitor, Two Laptops, Lots Of Thoughts
It’s Saturday evening, the ThinkPad is thinking on Debian as always, and the EliteBook G3 is still elite (sorry, had to). That one’s running ReviOS — technically Windows 11, but tweaked just enough that it behaves like it actually wants to be useful. The ThinkPad’s screen is nicer, but the EliteBook is bigger and better for watching movies when I decide I’ve earned some downtime. Between them, I’ve got everything I need.
I’m still a one-monitor man — partly because I like it that way, partly because I can’t be bothered rearranging the desk again. It keeps things clean. Focused. Besides, I’ve got the workbench behind me for when I need to solder things or drop tiny screws into the abyss.
Speaking of tiny screws, the K6ARK Morse keys use these M3x4mm grub screws. Genius design. Absolutely infuriating in practice. They’re so small I’ve considered just weighing the whole bag and hoping for the best. Every time I drop one, I swear it phases into another dimension. Yet somehow, the keys keep getting made and people keep ordering them — which is very cool, and also a little terrifying. Apparently I’m running a business now?
And in the background of all that — maybe because things have finally quieted down — I keep thinking about that one really good evening. You know the one. (Okay, I know the one.) Some might say I’m being romantic, replaying moments over and over again. I’d argue it’s just what happens when I don’t have enough chaos to crowd my brain. Romance, after all, is wildly inefficient in most situations. Especially now.
It circles back to something I wrote ages ago — about timing. It’s not that we need more time. It’s that the time just isn’t right. And god, I hate how true that still is. I don’t have enough hours in the day to get through half the stuff I already need to do, let alone throw “dating” into the equation. Maybe that’s why I overthink it. Or maybe I’ve just seen too many high school couples flame out spectacularly after a few months because they tried to sprint through something that should’ve been a slow build.
That’s not bitterness — it’s just realism with a dash of experience. It’s fun to have ideals. Everyone’s got them. I spend hours daydreaming about where I’ll be 10 years from now. And even if reality rarely plays out the way we planned, I think it’s still worth thinking about.
Also, the title of the post is a real title today! It took me longer to think of that title (that's still kind of rubbish) than it did to write the whole post... Really shows how immensely creative I am outside of CAD software.
But anyways. One monitor. Two laptops. Endless grub screws. And a mind that won’t shut up even when I’ve ticked everything off the to-do list. Business as usual.
73,
Daniel