I dreampt I was to go away on a trip in less than a week and, as in life, I *still* did not have an actual useable "laptop" and so I finally tried to assemble a super portable "luggable" PC from some key parts I purchased a year ago, but that instead of going together like a well laid plan, it failed to go together like a bunch of overpriced parts purchased by committee.

I recall in the dream thinking that it would have been wiser not to wait until the last minute, but instead to buy the parts for the more up-to-date plan to build a similar even smaller unit as soon as I’d determined what they were. Well in fact listed all the parts to use in just the past couple weeks and I didn’t order them because I felt I did not have the time to build such a unit.

Today I decided that, considering how stressful my dream was, I did not have time NOT to build such a unit. I decided that buying these parts and assembling them would take less time than shopping for a laptop of similar specs, at the same time cost less, and best of all prove more upgradeable in the long run than *any* laptop I could find even if I put in the time.

So as you might have guessed by now, this evening I actually ordered all the parts for my new micro Luggable PC. In case you are wondering not counting the display, keyboard and mouse it will be smaller than most notebooks.

I hope to post photographs after it is built.

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