My laptop is at the computer doctor, having its hard drive "cloned" before it dies. If this works, I'm good to go and I've basically purchased my same computer for a couple of hundred dollars. If it doesn't work, I've got to start from scratch.
My biggest loss will be the hours and hours I spent loading all my music into a digital library. I like the Creative Soundblaster solution reasonably well, but if I have to do it again will load music files onto an external hard drive or perhaps buy a box with a big hard drive and not much else just to hold my music.
Meanwhile life doesn't stop just because one's computer breaks, and I realize how much my laptop connects me to the world. I set up things by email way more often than by phone, and I keep track of my schedule electronically. So without a computer I've been a bit adrift. I've come in to the public library (where I am now) and used their machines to respond to important emails and send documents, etc. Since I've been unemployed I've cut back on buying books and have been using the library heavily for books and music. It had been a few years since I'd been in here -- silly of me, really, because it's a great resource.
The farmer's market is right outside the library doors. It's all oranges and reds and bright purples -- sunflowers, cosmos, tomatoes, summer squash, pumpkins.
Waves up sick laptop sympathy coming your way! Mine died about 4 weeks ago - just a few days into my 3L year. I was content at first that it was still under the extended warranty that I had purchases. But now that it's been 4 weeks and the estimated 'completion' date keeps getting changed, I am losing patience.
Posted by: Kelly | September 23, 2004 at 09:57 AM
In the middle of the night tonight. Drive down by the water, where it's dark. Borrow a dinghy, and row out into the anchorage
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