Im sure a couple of you have seen my facebook status and are dying to know what happened...
Yesterday I decided to take in my new laptop (laptop #1)(3 years old) because there was a power source issue and the warrantee was about to expired on. It worked still, except to get a connection with the powersource, you needed to do 8 hops, two cirles and hail mary pass to get it to consistently work. So I backed up all my information onto my external hard drive (which Uncle Gary gave me for free at Christmas time), and figured I’d use my older laptop (laptop #2)(6 years old) to do the simple things (check email, facebook, notes, essays, etc) I needed while my other one was out.
So yesterday, I made sure my old laptop (#2)worked, could read my external hard drive, get online, etc, before I took laptop #1 to the see the geek squad. Test run of my old laptop went well so I went to the shop after Mass. Dropped it off and should have it back in 2-3 weeks. I got back home and tried laptop #2 and sure enough it started to do funny things. And now, it won’t even start up in safemode! I frantically called Br. Dat up, and once if I finally got ahold of him, I found out I don’t even have the right CD to reformate latop #2! Thankfully he’s going to mail that to me today and should be here in a few days.
Till then, I’m 2 laptops down, and working in the school’s library. It wouldn’t be nearly as bad if I could just work on notes and essays w/o the internet from a laptop. For now I have to work on library hours, which is till 7pm, which most of my readers know is quite early in the evening for me.
Oh well, this is a practice to help me with detachment from a machine that ordinarily orders my life around. It wouldn’t be so bad if I wasn’t planning on taking my final comprehensive exams in three weeks and needed to finish 4 essays till then. This whole situation will also help me study more as I wont be distracted by a laptop either!
But I sure hope both of my laptops get fixed sooner than later!
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