So I'm a little excited. Some time in the next 4-6 weeks, a battery for my new IBM sublaptop. I bought the battery (guaranteed to hold a charge) for a penny off Ebay. It cost me roughly 931% of the total purchase price (in US dollars, no less) to ship it here.

I've been wanting a laptop for quite some time, despite the fact that K already owns one. As soon as I find a small distribution (and maybe an old PCMCIA network adaptor), I'm going to pop Linux on the puppy, and have a nice little thing to keep notes, writings and etc on.

I got it when I lucked out at a garage sale a few weeks ago; someone was selling his sister's old roommate's best friend's laptop, which had been sitting around for god-knows-how-long. I picked it up for $10 as-is.

I fired it up when I got home... and it booted (well, sort of. I had to reset the BIOS settings, as the CMOS battery was gone too). Once I diddled a bit, it loaded DOSHELL... so it's definitely been around for awhile. :)