Your experience makes me laugh. Not the recent kidney things though.. that’s not nice.

As for your laptop wanting to get replaced, after 3 years, even a bottom of the line, cheapo will still have at LEAST the same performance, if not greater, than the one you bought – assuming you bought one that’s middle of the road 3 years ago. Net books are pretty good, and I’d recommend the intel Atom. It’s the best out there so far. Power requirements are insanely low (I think their worst uses 5 watts of power) and still is pretty powerful. The screen size may be smaller than you’re used to but I have a hard time seeing those babies overheat on you – especially if you’re just doing word processing, excel, etc. Consider maybe you need to simply do a fresh re-install of your windows operating system on your computer. I know my friend who uses computers every day says every 6 months he re-installs windows just to keep it running smoothly. I can get by with 3-5 years with proper care, and so can you. I’d first recommend trying a fresh re-install of windows which will reset all the settings (which generally means all data on your computer will be erased, so back up first!). Check the cd’s that come with your laptop to see if they can help you with that.

Go ahead and pop me an email or add me to msn if you’d like. It’s kinda good you identify who you are though cause if you don’t I’ll just assume you’re some spammer or nigerian scammer (I know people that have that problem, they refuse to admit it, lol) .. Still, I have my fun with them when I can. I figure it’s only fair since people like that have given other people SO much heartache, at least someone can maybe cause them a little confusion or being upset. Anyway the start of the paragraph says msn or email is cause if I’m not regularly (every day) at your site, I will forget to come back.

Newegg.com is pretty good for prices as far as I know, for the US.

A lot of what I write about tends to be a journal of my day. Ergo, the post. Plus my blog is also my daily journey on my way to being successful entrepreneur business woman. So another ergo… that’s what happened that day, so that’s what I wrote about… Not to mention that that day I just didn’t want to deal with the techical issues.

Speaking of squirrels. Years agao I was in a house that had squirrels in the attic and the buggers chewed a hole through the celing in the kitchen. I remember going into the kitchen in the morning and freaking out wondering if there was a squirrel in my house. Thankfully there wasn’t. They were a nusience in that house all the time. So I hope you can get rid of them soon. As well as get a new stove, new pipes, flooring, new shingles, and get your grandmother off your insurance policy!!!
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Theresa Jane

You might consider getting some sort of Netbook as an emergency back-up computer. They only cost a couple hundred, and they are optimized for internet and email. It’s what people who travel constantly for business use. A netbook, blackberry/smartphone or now Mac tablet, becomes your portal rather than a repository for your stuff. It’s more like a telephone than a desk with drawers you can lose things in.

(I’ve been writing about wrestling with dragons and the symbolism involved.)

My roof needs a new set of shingles but I think the wood there is rotting also.. I think squirrels have made a home up there in my attic. The oven also recently blew, so we have no oven.

I paid $1000 for wood for this year. Way cheaper than the 1600 we were paying for natural gas.. After paying for a wood stove, the pipe got clogged at the top by the damned cap that’s supposed to save it from extra problems – well it didn’t. So until it got warm enough to check what was going on, we used space heaters. I got a 323 dollar speeding ticket, my internet bill for the year came up to over 400 dollars (still a good deal but damn bad timing), and my electricity bill was 864 dollars. Apparently I used 400 dollars worth of electricity, the rest is extra charges and taxes. I have 10 grand worth of debt on this house and my insurance company still thinks my grandmother lives here, even though I’ve told them she doesn’t. I just know that’s a battle on the horizon.

I think I win. I know it’s not about winning. Still, I think you can cope with the junk you have to deal with. Remember someone’s always more worse off than you are.