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Yeah. It's a problem.
He's made it decades without it, mind -- but seeing Sam Winchester with that thing that looks like a chrome file folder on speed, and seeing Sam use it, is enough to get him thinking.
If you can password-protect the shit out of what you're working on -- and that's possible, he knows, he just doesn't know how yet -- it's maybe going to be smarter to take some kind of computer with you on the road, and not take every book you own while you keep trying to figure who's got the information you might need if you're somewhere down in New Mexico and your library's back up in Sioux Falls and there's some weird god-knows-what going after some kid and you maybe had one too many to drink last night and you just can't make the damned connection.
Yeah. Maybe there's something to this laptop thing. And it'd be nice to have digital backups of some of his harder-to-find books.
That's why Bobby's got a Sunday edition of the Sioux Falls Argus Leader under his arm when he finds himself in the bar. After a moment's pause -- it's a bar -- he shrugs a little, gets a beer, settles down in a booth, pulls his cap down a little, and starts pulling out the advertising circulars for Best Buy and Circuit City.
He's made it decades without it, mind -- but seeing Sam Winchester with that thing that looks like a chrome file folder on speed, and seeing Sam use it, is enough to get him thinking.
If you can password-protect the shit out of what you're working on -- and that's possible, he knows, he just doesn't know how yet -- it's maybe going to be smarter to take some kind of computer with you on the road, and not take every book you own while you keep trying to figure who's got the information you might need if you're somewhere down in New Mexico and your library's back up in Sioux Falls and there's some weird god-knows-what going after some kid and you maybe had one too many to drink last night and you just can't make the damned connection.
Yeah. Maybe there's something to this laptop thing. And it'd be nice to have digital backups of some of his harder-to-find books.
That's why Bobby's got a Sunday edition of the Sioux Falls Argus Leader under his arm when he finds himself in the bar. After a moment's pause -- it's a bar -- he shrugs a little, gets a beer, settles down in a booth, pulls his cap down a little, and starts pulling out the advertising circulars for Best Buy and Circuit City.