My old tablet broke, so bought a new one. (Patreon)

So today I had intended to do a patron only stream, sometime around 6pm, but given that we have family coming down for Christmas, these past two days we've been in clean up mode. 

Today I was cleaning up my room and around my work desk, which meant I had to unplug my tablet from the computer for a while.

2 hours later when I go to plug it back in, only to discover the tablet's internal usb port (the one that's soldered to the tablets motherboard) hand snapped and fallen out completely.

Immediately I run to Amazon, but because it's so close to Christmas, even if I paid the extra for expedited shipping the soonest a new tablet would have been Dec 27th. Fuck.

So I race over to eBay to see when they could deliver... Jan 2nd.

I was in the process of writing a really sad post for you all, but then at 9pm I randomly thought to check the Best Buy website. Jan 5th.

But then I punched in my zip code, I saw that you could could reserve items for pickup and that nearby locations would be ready. Realizing this, I went low tech. I got the number of my nearest Best Buy from 25 miles up state and asked them if they had drawing tablets in stock, and the woman who answered the phone said that they did, for $400 and $1100 dollars but they may have something cheaper if I managed to get there before they closed up at 11.

I throw the turkey into the oven and floor it onto the highway. I might have taken out a mailbox or two, but fuck it.

I get the store with a half hour to spare and bumble my way inside (with my big poofy coat that makes me look like a bear). I sprint past the cell phones, give an old lady a heart attack because she thought I was charging for her. -I have a left and there on the shelf is a Intuos Draw for $69.99.

I can't begin to tell you how much of an emotional tonight has been...

Well right now I'm sitting with this thing hooked up and running (after installing and reinstalling my computer 4 times and rebooting the system 5 times, wiping the old files from system32, deleting the preference files, and setting it to manual mode...)

But yes, it's working now. The drawing space is the same even though the tablet itself is smaller. And unfortunately because it's an Intuos, none of my Bamboo pens will work with it. But i'm really warming up to it :3

Emergencies like this happen, but its only thanks to you all that I was able to afford to get this replacement. Thankyou for being this bull's Santa this year :3