Yes, my true love bought me a brand new hard disk for my birthday. He will probably deny that he said that he bought it for my birthday but I did boggle a bit when I got home and was handed a brown box and told to open it because it had one of my birthday presents in it but I really needed to open it now.

Amazingly enough, we’d had a conversation a few weeks ago where I said I was undecided as to whether I wanted to get a new bigger hard disk plus a new battery for my laptop to keep it going or to wait and see what Apple’s educational sweetener was going to be for the UK. So it was a bit of a surprise to receive a new 250GB hard disk. My reaction probably wasn’t the one of delight, he was expecting because what ran through my head was “oh no, now I’m going to have to buy a new battery and I have absolutely no reason to look at a new laptop in the autumn and I really wished that I could have decided which way to go”.

He knew that it wasn’t the most romantic present in the world as soon as I’d opened the box but today as I type this with my new hard disk installed, a copy of Leopard on my desktop and my laptop running more smoothly than it has since I bought it – I realise how thoughtful, kind and romantic pao’s present really is.

THANK YOU, pao!!!!

(PS Thank you for the yarn you gave me to make up for it when you realised that a hard disk really wasn’t my vision of romance and also for saying that we could have the tiger cat if he was a she. I haven’t seen tiger cat today so he/she may have just strayed briefly before heading onto other places).

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