Technical Difficulties ... Fixed?

 

Well, the trusty laptop I purchased in 2015 finally died. Six months ago.

Truth be told, the damnable thing gave me nothing but problems from nearly day one. Out of charity I won’t name the manufacturer, because when it did work I was more than happy with it. But soon issues overwhelmed it. First, it would go black when I typed too hard on the keyboard. Had to reboot and would lose any data. Then it would go black when I raised or lowered the screen. I had to treat it as if it was made of fine china or I was typing on a house of cards. Lastly, the random freezing. Which resulted in many wasted hours cleaning and defragging hard drives and uninstalling any unfamiliar programs. A buddy tried swapping out the motherboard. But nothing seemed to fix the 2015 laptop.

Then, on April 10th, it powered on but refused to boot up to the startup desktop.

(Forgive me if I’m abusing computer terminology. I’ve been out of the game for 23 years.)

Took it to a PC Doctor and was told the laptop was shot. He was able to put all my files – word docs, excel spreadsheets, PDFs, and pictures – onto a flash drive and charged me $100 for my trouble. And that was that.

Hopper purchased a new laptop on Amazon Day back in July. It was a different manufacturer from the one who built the 2015 laptop. Contrary to the 2015 laptop, however, it was a B-I-O-T-C-H to set up. I resorted to paying my daughter to get it up and running, get my McAfee switched over, and get my MS Office suite set up. The latter of which is still not working hitch-free. I’m waiting for her Thanksgiving break where I’ll toss a few more $ her way to get it all straightened out.

In the meantime, over the past 180 days or so, I’ve done many things and read many books and watched many movies which I’ve longed to blog about. Some weird encounters, some jaw-dropping literary reads, some phenomenal – and crappy – flicks. Most of which I’ll get to, soon, when the spirit moves me.

But be it known that I am back.

More posts in the next couple of days.