Technolgy Stinks

We have five laptops under our roof. Five. But not a single one of them is reliable.

One is my Sony Vaio (don't ever buy one) from my college days. It's so old it doesn't even have Internet capabilities on it other than dial-up. Why we keep carting it around from place to place is beyond me. But one day James may look at it the same way I looked at my mom's old typewriter and think it's awesome.

Another is almost just as old but won't even turn on anymore, but I can't bring myself to get rid of it because it has pictures on it I want and I know that some day I will be able to afford to pay someone to get them off of there for me.

Then we have the two trusty Dells that seem like they should have died months ago but just keep on ticking, albeit incredibly slowly. I finally got one of them to resume printing capabilities the other day and that was an awesome miracle.

Finally, this here MacBook I am currently typing on has saved me during this past year. Many thanks to my dear sister for loaning it to me when she be came aware of our overly desperate situation. Because of it, I've been able to continue my terrible habit of online browsing/shopping/etc. But I've also been able to blog, Skype, email and upload pictures of my cute kids like nobody's business.

I should have known something was coming down when the cord on the computer (I know there's a more technical name for it) stopped working and I resorted to buying a cheap one off of ebay instead of the $200 version from the Apple store.

Things have only gone downhill since then. When we returned from our trip to Utah/Idaho a few days ago, I realized the battery had completely gone kaput on me. No warning at all. I thought Macs were supposed to be superior to Dells in every way, but at least my Dell warned me when its battery started dying (i.e. "Your battery is reaching the end of its usable life" every time I turned the computer on). 

To top it off, about once an hour the screen will go black, kinda like someone just pulled the plug. I'll still be able to see a vague outline of the applications I had running but I won't be able to view them well enough to do anything about it. Truth be told, it gives me the creeps every time it happens.

Dear me.

So what's a girl to do? I'm hoping this dear MacBook will at least hold out until March or April when we get what will hopefully be a huge tax return.

Until then, blog posts may be scarce, email may be limited, and Facebook is probably going to become nonexistent.

I guess that's not such a bad thing.