I have in the past rambled about my late 2009 desktop iMac and how I was going to ride it until it died.
Well, at 11:53 PM on June 15, it did. Specifically, the hard drive woke from sleep but the monitor did not. Backups are important, kids.
Since then, I’ve been moderately flailing around trying to figure out how to do things I did every day. This involved buying my first HDTV and my first powered USB hub since 2000 (!). A raft of applications I routinely used are inaccessible* and a handful more do work on the MacBook Pro, but can go no further OS-wise. The iPod will never be synced again, and yes, I still have an iPod and will lovingly cuddle it as long as I can.
Then less than two weeks later I whanged my Fitbit against the car and broke the screen. When it rains it pours.