The year of broken things.
Well, really since the end of last year things have been falling apart around me. Material things, not family or emotional things. Last October, my daughter’s car died and it’s still dead. It needs timing belts, crank sensor, spark plugs, and a valve gasket replaced. Yeah, it can wait as long as the dealer will let me keep it there.
Then, just before Christmas, my work laptop died – a laptop I have to provide for myself, not company provided. I had taken it in to work to have the Windows 7 operating system installed on it when the motherboard crashed. Luckily I was able to commandeer my daughter’s identical laptop and got that up and running. Now, two months later, that laptop died. Same problem.
(As an aside, I found it rather interesting that both HP Pavillion dv6500 computers died almost exactly 2 years from when I purchased them. Coincidence?)
So this last Monday I had to go out and buy a new computer. My job is dependent on me having a working, reliable computer. If I don’t have a laptop, I can’t work. If I don’t work, I obviously don’t get paid. So this time I opted for a more powerful (read: also more expensive) laptop. This time, I veered away from the HP and landed with a Sony Vaio with an HD widescreen monitor and all the bells and whistles. I love it – all except for the slightly squeaky keyboard.
Then today, my cell phone, which was limping along just fine decided that all I would be able to do was text people with it. I couldn’t hear anyone when I placed or received a call. So off to Verizon Wireless I went. I had been avoiding this for a long time because a) my contract had expired and I didn’t want to get locked into another one and b) I hate paying my astronomical cell phone bill every month and had been considering getting rid of it altogether, and c) if I was going to have a phone, I really, really wanted to hold out until the new Windows Phone 7 is released and I’d get that.
Have I mentioned that I am a sucker for all things techy, shiny and geekified? Well, I saw the HTC Droid and played with it for a few minutes and it wooed me over. I forgot all my resolve of not renewing a contract, my temptation to chuck the whole cell phone addiction in the toilet, and I walked out with a new phone and all the accessory gadgets.
Did I mention the PINK cover I got for it?
That just makes everything better now.
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Well, it’s too bad you had to buy all these new things but they sure are cool. I have a lapbook Vaio that my SIL gave me and I love it, I make all my interview calls on it with skype and the free skype recorder. Your phone looks awesome. I have phone envy.
Oh, that SUCKS, sorry to hear it. My old laptop is six years old and still running strong – a Dell. My nine year old desktop, which was a Dell died last year as well, although I think that was a family rumor and not fact, it was just a little slow. I got a new Dell laptop for my b-day/Christmas last December so I didn’t have to share with everyone else in the house, because with their homework and YouTube we had long lines for our computer, and I was tired of looking for jobs from midnight to three am each night. Love my new laptop but I’m not so thrilled with Windows 7.
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