Thar she blows….
It wasn’t really a blow… just a few sparks, a few scary-ass sparks. They’re terrifying when they’re coming from the cord attached to the computer, let me attest to that.
My laptop cord is dead.
Of course, it’s a Dell and this laptop has a notorious reputation for eating cords. I made it 18 months without needing a replacement. (I was tempted to order 2, just b/c I wanna make sure it’s available when I need another….)
I’m on the desktop model, which is weird. Bad thing is that all my writing is on the laptop and it has about 10 minutes of battery life left, tops. When daughter comes home Friday night, I’ll use her cord (same puter) and back everything up to disk (up to date… my last back up is about a month old) and then I can proceed. Sigh.
So, I’m off to work by hand, since that’s all I can right now. Hopefully I’ll think of something more … feasible to blog about. Right now I’m traumatized by sparks. Forgive me.
Ciao!
~Mel 
Um. Ack.
Assume you’ve ordered a new cord, because….ack.
October 3rd, 2007 | #
EEK!!! I hope you get a new cord soon. I think I’d die without my laptop. I can’t work on my big system anymore. Though writing long hand usually gets me through any writer’s block I’m having, so that is fun.
October 4th, 2007 | #
Daughter’s home today from school with Pink Eye (Thanks Mandy, for sending it to Indiana….)
She’s 16, but hasn’t gotten over the warning from 10 yrs ago not to open the door to strangers when she’s home alone. (no, didn’t leave her home alone at 6, but she was “alone” while dad slept–he worked nights–so same warning applied)
She calls me at work. “Mom, some guy came to the house and knocked, but I didn’t answer it. He left a sticker on the door. It says DHL on it.”
My cord… sooooo close yet so far!
October 5th, 2007 | #