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Before the day is through, I promise you

That we will laugh about it all

And we'll celebrate the things we've done for years to come

I don't got much, but I got heart and soul

But no, really. Keith’s day was decent. He had a couple meetings, trained for a few hours, just a regular day on the castle. He even got to watch Shiro trip that morning, which raised his mood significantly. His day, by all accounts, was decent, if not good.

But as the evening hits and he heads to the common room, tasks done for the day, he sees his boyfriend (fiancé, now), and just — he doesn’t even have the words for it. One second he’s standing in the doorway, something warm and inviting uncurling in his belly as Lance catches sight of him and beams, and the next second he’s got Lance wrapped up in his arms. He buries his face in the crook of Lance’s neck and inhales deeply, not giving even half a shit if that’s weird, because his eyes are closed but he can feel the softness of Lance’s favourite pink sweater and hear his warm chuckle and smell his floral shampoo, and his senses are overwhelmed with Lance and he just melts. Just — sinks into Lance, sighing, muscles relaxing and brain quieting and heart slowing, because it feels like he’s holding pure comfort in his hands.

His hands find the back of Lance’s head, fingers tangled in his curly hair, and he thinks that it’s true and he is.

“Hi, sweetheart,” Lance mumbles, pressing a kiss to Keith’s temple. “You okay?”

Keith sighs again, kissing the warm skin of Lance’s neck.

“Yeah. Just — wanted to hold you.”

“Mm. You’re acting like you haven’t seen me in days. I was with you in the meeting this morning, you dork.”

It’s true. He was. They sat together, quietly playing tic-tac-toe on Lance’s notes when it droned on for too long.

But still.

“I know. I just like holding you. It’s — nice. Safe.”

He can feel Lance’s grin, pressed into his shoulder, even through the thickness of his sweater.

“Yeah?”

“Yeah.”

He doesn’t know how to say it. How to tell Lance that holding him feels like coming home. That his smile makes Keith’s anxieties melt away, that his affection makes Keith strong. That everything about him makes Keith feel like he can be the best he can possibly be, with Lance at his side.

“I love you,” he says instead, because he feels like that ought to cover a part of it, at least.

Lance pulls back slightly, and when his eyes meet Keith’s they’re as knowing as they are amused.

“I love you, too,” Lance says, leaning up higher to kiss Keith’s forehead, and then his nose, and then his lips. “God, I love you, too.”

Cores/Intel Cores (Ex. i3, i5, i9)= Processing Speed= how fast your internet and other programs run. More cores is better.

Hard [Disk] Drive(HDD)/Solid State Drive(SSD) (Ex. 250GB, 480GB, 2TB)= How much you can store on your computer (files and apps and programs). A Terabyte(TB) is 1,000 Gigabytes.

*HDD is cheaper and more storage while SSD is faster, more durable, and uses less energy.

Memory/RAM(Random Access Memory) (Ex. 4GB, 8GB, 16GB) = How many different things your computer can do At The Same Time.

Ex. A computer with 4GB of RAM will probably shit itself if you try to play a game with with the internet open.

‘Refurbished’ means it’s been in a technician’s hands recently and can’t be sold as new. That’s it. That’s all. In the US the FTC makes it illegal to sell something new if it’s been sold to an end user, so by definition a lot of perfect, ready-to-go hardware must be ‘refurbished’ in order to sell it again, no matter the circumstances.

Reasons a machine might be a refurb:

- Customer bought the item, decided they didn’t like the color, and returned it

- Customer bought the item, couldn’t figure out how to turn it on, and returned it

- Retailer opened the box for some reason and lost some of what gets shipped inside (manuals, cables, charger) and returned it

- Company bought 100 computers but went out of business before they could be installed or used

- Customer got a replacement for a damaged computer under warranty, and the manufacturer fixed what was wrong with the old machine and is now selling it as a refurb

I HAVE PERSONALLY WITNESSED ALL OF THESE SCENARIOS

Bottom line: ‘refurbished’ hardware has been repaired, tested, cleaned, and renewed back to original specifications by a trained technician. If anything, it’s probably MORE reliable now that it’s been doubly-tested. 

All responsibly refurbished equipment comes with a factory warranty... the only refurbs I would avoid are items sold ‘as-is’ without warranty. That’s dangerous unless you know what you’re doing, like buying stuff for parts.

A lot of my most reliable hardware -- servers, laptops, tablets -- were bought as refurbished goods at huge savings. When I go shopping for a new thing I always look at the refurbished options first.