Eric's Beijing Diary

Bought a little notebook "made with future technology for tomorrow's outstanding achievers." I think I'm going to have to go over to one of those used computer markets in Zhonguancun and get an old mini laptop. Doesn't have to have much memory--just enough for writing. Not much of a monitor either, I can just set the font up. I just hate transcribing from notebooks. This happens every time I travel. I scribble my disjointed musings in a notebook, then have to have to sit down at a computer and transcribe it later--a tedious task even when I can read my own writing. My laptop in Beijing is perfect for lugging to the coffee bar, but too big to take in my backpack, mainly because I'm not willing to give up my 15 inch monitor. It's really like having a portable desktop computer. But I tend to leave it at home on trips like this. If I had one of those really tiny things just for writing, then I wouldn't have to write everything twice.