But I Love My Laptop

Matilda: Don't people need good cars? Can't you sell good cars, Dad?

When I got my laptop (HP tx1000z) I had it customized just the way I wanted it. I decided that I wasn’t going to be one of those silly people who replaces their laptop every couple of years. And so I ordered exactly what I wanted, including some fun but expensive options, spending lots of $.

After about 5 months it was really screwing up. I don’t remember exactly what was wrong but I blamed myself (I still think it was me) and reformatted my computer. That fixed it and I’ve not had any problems until...

Now it’s been nearly 2 years and suddenly I can’t use wireless internet anymore. Hot Cup and I (mostly Hot Cup because he speaks computer) have been trying to figure it out and there are a lot of complaints in online forums about it, and even a website dedicated to this specific defect. Apparently it’s the hardware and eventually my laptop won’t be working at all. I can connect with a cable or use a USB WiFi card for now, but it looks like other stuff will start to go bad too and my computer will die :(

This and my camera. I am not having very good luck here. Big difference between this and my camera though. The next camera I buy will probably be another Canon. But I'm not very happy with HP about my laptop. They really screwed me.

Funny ad placement again. Haha.

Class of 2009!

Last week my sister graduated from High School.

Congratulations babe!

Here's the cutie!

>With her BFF
>With her other BFF
>With us sisters

Dagen H

Does the transition to digital television make you think of anything? You know, from history? I'm guessing that it does not. Or if it does, it's probably more closely related to DTV than what it makes me think of. Ever since they started plastering ads everywhere about DTV (a long time ago, they’re rarer now), I think about H Day when I see them. I’d read once about all the advertising the Swedish government did to make that work (the “four-year education program”). I think I made the connection because of that somehow. I’m weird.

Can you think of any other widely advertised nationwide switch that a government headed? There’s probably tons. I can’t think of any more at the moment though.

Honeymoon

A couple months ago I shared with you some pictures from our honeymoon. I know you were left thinking that I didn't give you enough details of our fun trip!

Hot Cup has shared more about it on his blog. In fact, he's in the other room right now drafting the 5th (and final) post about it! This means (unless you already read his blog :) that you have some catching up to do - you can start here with Day 1 - to read about the 5 days we spent on the Caribbean island of Grenada!