The Perfect Backwards Pike.

Well the laptop took a pretty bad fall last night. I was cleaning off the table to get things ready for dinner and when I picked up my briefcase, I didn't realize that I had forgotten to zip it up, so I got to watch it flip over a few times before crashing screen side down onto the linoleum floor. The good news is that the insides still seem to work, minus the screen and the CD drive of course, but at least I have access to all the pictures and my writing and whatever else is in there.

I’ve replaced the screen once already on this computer and now I’m trying to figure out if I really want to spend the 850 or so dollars that it’s going to take to fix it all so I can have a two year old IBM laptop that’s been dropped twice, or if I should just give it up for lost and buy something new.

These seem like pretty lousy choices to me.

Since the laptop is unusable, I’m writing this from my recording studios computer. It’s a computer without a home really since my studio is in pieces in the garage and there’s no room to set it up. Of course there is the house computer, and I could have just used that one I guess, but I thought it would be fun to get this one up and running, update all it’s updateables and make sure it still works.

I had to be home this afternoon anyway, as the new woman we hired to look after Ike in the afternoons had to be let go. Long story of why’s that not really feeling like getting into it right now, so we’ll just leave it at that.

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