My poor old Hubert is finally too old. Even his hard drive is tiny compared to what's out there right now. When the chip on his hard drive controller blew out, I thought for sure I had lost him, but we managed to swap out the controller and get my stuff all back.

For comparison to how tiny Hubert's world was... his clone is now living inside one of the two hard drives in Lormar, my new computer. Lormar is awesome, but I feel I have somehow betrayed my beloved Hubert.

Hubert's always had power issues. He's baked about three video cards and has gone through at least two motherboards. But I love him so. I'm wondering if we could somehow stabilize his energy issues and build him up as a Linux box. His case is darling, he was a Valentine's present.

I may even make a cyberpet cosplay of my beloved Hubert. He's a yellow kitty case with a red bow for his power button and his belly button is a reset. His "teeth" is where you fit the CD ROM and he even had a separate slot for an old floppy drive.

*wails* My baby!! I played Guild Wars for the first time on my Hubert! He was my own computer, my own first computer where previously I had to share computers with either my family back home or my husband. You wouldn't think people would get attached to old machines, but I have a love and sympathy for things no one would think to love. I never cared if they were old or outdated, I like to see if we could get them to work again.

I wish I knew more about machines. I'd fill the world with robots.