This post has been brought to you by my local library...
...who has so graciously given me one hour of internet time, of which I only have 26 minutes left.
I was shopping for a new computer.
Yes, a new one.
Yes, the shiny new laptop that I so cherished and exalted one Christmas morning is now nothing more than a glorified, 6 pound, $1500 paperweight.
All thanks to a bad logic board (or motherboard, for you PC people out there). In other words (for the non-technologically inclined), my computer experienced brain-death about a week ago.
And get this: Even though Apple knows that there's been a problem with the logic boards, they refuse to replace them because the problem has occured once all the computers are so conveniently out of warranty. Essentially, the consumer gets screwed by someone's cost/benefit analysis.
Grrrrrr...
So I have to buy a new computer. Which is not fun, considering that a new one will cost more than what I make in a month, and my budget has already shrunk considerably. I'm seriously considering cancelling my Netflix subscription, and that makes me really sad. That, and the fact that my weekly allowance is now only $30 (with no deviation whatsoever), makes for a not-so-fun Labor Day weekend.
Hence, I am here at the library between an old lady who was watching something on YouTube a little while ago and a 10 year old girl who has not spoken a word of damn English since she got here and is checking out her MySpace. Her two friends are occupying a computer behind me, obviously doing the same thing.
::exasperated sigh::
Well, I should probably get back to the house now. The bright side to my day is that it's college football opening weekend and I have a beautiful TV to go watch it on in HiDef (purchased with my sister before my current budget crisis). And Rutgers won on Thursday night! Ok, ok, so it was against Buffalo. But a win is a win. I'll take one in the win column any day...especially since there's nothing but fans of the various Florida schools down here.
Off I go...needless to say, blogging will be more intermittent until I get my own computer again.
I was shopping for a new computer.
Yes, a new one.
Yes, the shiny new laptop that I so cherished and exalted one Christmas morning is now nothing more than a glorified, 6 pound, $1500 paperweight.
All thanks to a bad logic board (or motherboard, for you PC people out there). In other words (for the non-technologically inclined), my computer experienced brain-death about a week ago.
And get this: Even though Apple knows that there's been a problem with the logic boards, they refuse to replace them because the problem has occured once all the computers are so conveniently out of warranty. Essentially, the consumer gets screwed by someone's cost/benefit analysis.
Grrrrrr...
So I have to buy a new computer. Which is not fun, considering that a new one will cost more than what I make in a month, and my budget has already shrunk considerably. I'm seriously considering cancelling my Netflix subscription, and that makes me really sad. That, and the fact that my weekly allowance is now only $30 (with no deviation whatsoever), makes for a not-so-fun Labor Day weekend.
Hence, I am here at the library between an old lady who was watching something on YouTube a little while ago and a 10 year old girl who has not spoken a word of damn English since she got here and is checking out her MySpace. Her two friends are occupying a computer behind me, obviously doing the same thing.
::exasperated sigh::
Well, I should probably get back to the house now. The bright side to my day is that it's college football opening weekend and I have a beautiful TV to go watch it on in HiDef (purchased with my sister before my current budget crisis). And Rutgers won on Thursday night! Ok, ok, so it was against Buffalo. But a win is a win. I'll take one in the win column any day...especially since there's nothing but fans of the various Florida schools down here.
Off I go...needless to say, blogging will be more intermittent until I get my own computer again.
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