Its a Saturday night here in the city, and the weather is pretty eugh outside. I am left sitting here pondering the question, why has my laptop remained on my desk for the last fortnight.

My laptop and I are in a relationship. My husband frequently refers to my laptop as my “boyfriend” and claims it gets more attention than he does, and there could be some truth to that, except laptops don’t open jars, can’t do the laundry, well, not yet anyway.

But for the past two weeks since moving into my new office, my laptop has remained on my desk, connected at all times to the mains power, so not even so much as a flat batter for which Acer laptops are notorious. Tonight I pondered this question with fellowing #geekzone people and this is my conculsion, its more than a laptop now, its become another desktop because of the 2nd monitor connected to it.

I have a 19″ monitor connected to my laptop. I make no bones about it, I have gotten used to having a 2nd monitor on my laptop for the last few months, but now more than ever. Open and running on the 2nd monitor is XChat, MSN, TweetDeck and Windows Sidebar which is showing me a clock, a post it note, CPU useage, Wireless Network Meter, A Google Box, the weather outside in the real world, the date and a Gmail notifier.

What does this information tell me, it tells me whats happening. Its my communications hub. I even had Skype open on the screen at one stage.

But what was the real sign I had a problem. Last night we had a small child in the house. She wanted to watch Playhouse Disney on my TV here in the cave. She came in and I had my desktop and laptop running. Aunty Alikat, Why do you have three computers?

But in the mean time, I’m using 92% of my ram, pondering the high road toll, twittering about nothing in particular, like how todays Gossip Girl marathon has turned my brain to mush, but I have a strong wireless signal, regardless I could hardwire myself to the network switch because it is within arms length.

Sure I revisited going mobile in Hamilton and it was great. I had my Vodafone 3G mobile interwebs to keep me connected, and I watched Gossip Girl episodes in the bedroom while the boys watched rugby in the lounge. But maybe it’s time for me to break free from the desk and check out other rooms of the house I haven’t seen in a while.