Broke-e-did

And hopefully, it will soon be fix-e-did. My laptop. The one that my son spilled water on last December, and I bought a replacement keyboard that still didn’t work, so I used an external keyboard because it was the middle of a semester, and I could NOT switch computers.

And then the power cord died, and I bought a replacement cord. And for a long while it worked. Until a few weeks ago when it would randomly NOT work.

That is when I went from dreaming about a new laptop to actually purchasing one. I work online, and I needed a laptop I could depend on.

The kids were drooling over the thought of getting my old laptop. They envisioned filling it up with various Sims games and enhancement packs.

But I made them wait. I had important things on that there laptop that I needed to retrieve before handing it over to the children. And I managed to grab most of it before the laptop decided it would NOT work no matter what.

It has a short circuit in it somewhere, and I am not up to fixing that. So I broke down and took my laptop to a repair shop. I have two more laptops that could also be repaired, and depending how this one goes, I might take those too.

At the very least, I know I can get an external hard drive case and get everything I need off the laptop. But I’d like to have one that my kids can use too.

Mainly because that keeps them from bothering me when I’m working with comments like, “I need to see my Facebook,” or “Will you Google something for me?”

Because the desktop computer is busy playing Sims.

In the meantime, I am busy learning Windows 7 AND Office 2010 in order to be ready for the fall semester.