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Wow - almost an entire month has gone by since my last post and I have absolutely zero excuse for it. My laptop issues remain - I still haven't decided what to do and I am at the point where I realize that wishing the problem would solve itself just isn't working. I have been using my laptop while it is plugged into our tv - hard on the eyes and hard on the neck. I just can't let it go! A week and a half ago I decided to bite the bullet and simply fix the screen, but when I talked to the computer repair guy he pretty much talked me out of it. He was willing to do it of course, but just didn't think it was a good usage of money. So.... that set me back again. Why am I so indecisive about this?!? I know it's a character flaw and I encounter the same problem when faced with a large menu in a restaurant. This is obviously something I must work on. Sigh.
On a more uplifting note (and something more in line with the nature of this website and blog) we have sort of figured out where this upcoming summer's European adventure will take us. We will spent about a week and a half in Holland (part of the time celebrating my in-laws 40th wedding anniversary) and another week and a half in France. Haven't finalized exactly where, although Paris will factor in for a few days, other than that it will be somewhere with a beach. The struggle is between going somewhere new and going somewhere we absolutely loved visiting 3 years ago. I'll definitely keep you posted on our decision - it's a pretty good 'struggle' to have.
Now off to buy a laptop - may the force of decision making be with me!
I dropped my laptop. The saying 'You don't know what you've got 'til it's gone' rings very true, although I'd like to believe that I really did know what I had even before it left for laptop heaven. A week and a half ago in a hotel hallway in Alameda, California my laptop bag hit the floor in the "It's my turn to use the key!" shuffle. (Using the keycard to enter a hotel room is almost as exciting as pushing elevator buttons. At what age does that finally wear off??)
When I opened my computer and turned it on I was met with all sorts of crazy lines and art deco splotches and quite honestly I wanted to puke. In an attempt to turn back time I closed the lid and tried again... no luck. So, for the past week and a half I have been in a funk mourning the loss of my beautiful Mediterannean Blue beauty. The cost of replacing the screen just doesn't seem worth it when you can get a brand new (and newer model) computer for only a few hundred dollars more - but they no longer make that color and so I have done absolutely nothing about it because I just don't know what to do. The upside is that my hard drive was fine so I really can't be all that upset. Really my sadness is all because of the color of my laptop, isn't that silly?
This week I need to make a decision and move on - but breaking up and letting go is hard! I have things to type and places to do it other than in the cluttered room where our home computer lives. The next time I write I hope to be doing it on my new laptop, but in tribute to my old one here is a lovely picture of it soaking up the Tuscan sun this summer. Adios, Arrivederchi, Au Revoir.
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