dispair

dispair! my mac is beginning to show the wear and tear that i have for so long tried to suppress. they are simple and minor defects, but (to me) are as obvious as a fly in ointment. (a) i have broken one of the fold-away brackets on the power cord -- probably fixable but will never be the same again. it means that i cant wind up the cord the way i used to. (b) where i rest my wrists on the front, i can see bits of the silvering starting to come away in a kind of dirty-mottled effect.

recently my x11 has been crashing a lot. don't know what the cause of it is.