Computer Follies

I am back. I hope y'all had a good weekend. I had an expensive one, though things have changed. My 5 year old laptop, with keys that were losing their punch, died. I had to go out and buy a new one.

Without going into the excruciating details of the purchase, suffice to say I am working on it now. I found my bill from 5 years ago. I paid over two times as much for a heavier, slower computer with one sixth the memory. I paid $1,600 for my last laptop and this one was under $700 and is much more robust and faster.

The big need right now is to get all of my files including my music, off the old hard drive and on to this computer. I will have to look into that tomorrow, but I do want my music. I am thinking that if I can find the proper enclosure I should be able to transfer the files myself. I could then put the hard drive back into the old laptop, run the recovery disks and I may have a ``clean`` 40GB laptop for the lad to use as his own.

I have had to use our old desktop. It is a Pentium 3 with 6GB of hard drive memory. It is damn slow, but at least it works and did the trick. I may need a new printer as the laser printer that we have connects via serial port, which was fine for my old laptop, but not this one.

I hope you have enjoyed that one. I am telling you, the computer was slow but worked fine on Saturday. I was listening to music and surfing the web as per usual. Come Sunday morning, the Wife could not get the computer to boot up in the morning. I thought that I had it but it reverted to blackness.

After 5 years, it owes me nothing. Well, that was the weekend highlight. That was the way to end February and begin March. Ciao!