New laptop computers and battery life

The work laptop computer that I was issued was new, as is the personal laptop I subsequently bought. I have been appreciating using computers that have significant battery life. Even with video calls, I find that I can typically unplug them for as long as is convenient, at least for now. Battery life of aged devices is one of the issues that concern me with electric cars: I care about the range of the car now but also what the range will be in a decade's time once the batteries have aged. I wish the charging took the form of, I stop briefly at a refueling station where they just take the depleted cells out, replacing them with a rack of fresh ones. At least I can be hopeful about longevity because battery technology sees ongoing progress.

A small success of relocation

A mistake that I made in Scotland was in living west of my workplace: it made for having the sun in my eyes on many commutes. A success of my moving here, increasingly noticeable now that I work on campus more often than not, is that I now live north and some east of my workplace.