Limping Along

Jun
10

I wish I could tell you that for the last few days, I was off having a bunch o’ fun, but that’s not it!
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In fact, it has been the opposite of fun. Like, a special kind of hell. The kind where Bill Gates is in charge.

The backlight went out on my trusty lil five-year-old Mac laptop. My beloved! After struggling with it going on and off, screen randomly going black, then finally going black for good, I gave it up and took it in to be fixed. It will take one to two weeks, depending on how long it takes to get the backlight in. ONE TO TWO WEEKS.

I went home to think it over, sleep on my disastrous problem, deal with separation anxiety from My Beloved.

Then I decided to go back and buy a cheap backup laptop. It’s been years since I used a PC and you just can’t get one anymore that doesn’t have Windows 8 on it. Which apparently is much different from Windows 7 and other previous versions of Windows. All I know is that I don’t like it and can hardly figure out how to do anything. Not only am I used to a Mac, I’m dealing with Windows 8. After enslaving my friend Jerry to pick out the laptop for me to start with, he then loaded my necessary programs for me or trust me I wouldn’t be here at all.

Meanwhile, it’s taking me about 100 times longer to do anything, so please bear with me.

I CAN’T WAIT TILL I GET MY MAC BACK!!!

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