I finally have a new laptop. She is shiny and black and oh god it has been far too long since I've had access to a computer where the screen wasn't cracked. I am so ridiculously happy. I have also named her, as I name all my favourite electronics. Her name is Florence. It just suits her. She and Gilbert make a nice match, even if Gilbert is a ( Read more... )

I have a few things for the journal but I'm going to have to wait to post them until I can a) buy another memory stick to transfer them from my computer, which fails at getting wireless, and my sister's computer, which doesn't fail at getting wireless, or b) find a cord connection. The old beast is really a pain in the ass now, screen cracks and no ( Read more... )

So, just in time for midterm papers, guess what my computer does to me? It fucks up the power port so that regardless of whether I am using my own power cord or someone else's of the same kind (I'm using Tracy's right now; she's down before going home for the long weekend and she kindly let me borrow it to recharge my battery and finish typing up ( Read more... )