There Is Only One Someone/Something Sit On My Lap.....and it's gone

I declare last week the "Week of Shit." From almost loosing the tip of my left index finger God knew I got lucky. So he got me where it really hurts, he decided to spill "liquid" on my laptop.

Now I feel like a sailors wife waiting for the return of her loved one from Apple Care. Once it comes back sure it will work okay, but it will never be the same. It won't have the Windows XP which took me forever to get, nope, going to be cleaned off the hard drive. It won't have the Roskilde Festival Turborg sponsor sticker, nope, taken right off or a brand new cover. It won't have that cute, sometimes annoying dent on the left side, nope, replaced with a new non dented frame.

But at least I still have the tip of my old, scratched up finger, sure it might be annoying at times and may never feel any nerve endings there, but at least it has attitude, it stuck around (with a sliver of skin), and personality with it's new look. Which sometimes I think gives anything an edge.

I will miss my old laptop...but not as much as I typed earlier, more because of annoyance dealing with waste of time. I do wonder what it takes in design (product design, graphic design, typography, and etc.) to give a personality and some sort of lasting relationship to people. Especially in the digital age, it's hard to keep a digital product as thoughtful as a family heirloom, with backed up hard drives, infinite copies that could be printed, and the ever expanding Facebook profiles of memories. It can be around practically forever.

There are really two digital files I take to heart, a thoughtful email from Dad and a picture when I was younger with some of my best friends growing up. If I ever lost those files, you can bet that the blog about it would be atrocious to read and unpleasant to look at the pictures I post, all because of my frustration of loss, in a hypothetical situation.

All and all I think I am just on a random typing sequence, I need to cut short and just ask one question to anyone who is reading this.

What is very close to you in the digital age (as in any particular sense of files, websites, and apps)? And why is it so special?