Thursday, February 7, 2008

S is for "Sucks"

Well this totally sucks. I was going to use my "s" post to talk about sex. . . and then our home computer goes and DIES on me. Well. It was my fault. I took the battery out of it and apparently, laptops need the batteries in them, even when running on the outlet. . . something about overloading the networks inside and basically frying the poor little things inside out. Oops. But here I am, using a computer with a Japanese operating system and all the manuals in Japanese and me illiterate in Japanese. . . I panicked over the news earlier this year (last year?--stalwart little computer, I apparently applied nasty torture devices to it for quite a while before it gave up the ghost) about laptop batteries spontaneously bursting into flames.

So I whisked our laptop's battery right out.

Now, it's broken little shell has been whisked out of the house off to the electronics store. Where they sternly lectured us on our stupidity for quite a while. It was really embarrassing and completely sucked.

But that wasn't nearly as funny as the cable t.v. man this afternoon who responded to our desperate "something-is-wrong-with-the-cable-t.v.-come-as-soon-as-possible" call to discover that we had. . . unplugged the cable booster. So he plugged it back in and charged us about 13 U.S. dollars.

Our technological abilities suck.

Hopefully we will get another laptop or they will do some sort of transplant on the old one.

Right now I am using a laptop from Masa's work place. It will have to go off to work with him tomorrow. What keeps a mother of young children up past midnight on a weeknight? Internet addiction. I feel like a 16 year old with a cooler full of beer and parents gone for the weekend! Too bad it will all be over tomorrow at about 8 a.m. Which just sucks.

7 comments:

Christelle said...

Sorry to hear about your sucky situation. I didn't know laptops needed their batteries in them all the time either (if that makes you feel any better).

Lulu said...

I am doing the encyclopdia of me also now, inspired by your archive posts! And if that isn`t weird enough my post today is called `sucks` also....

Hope you another lappy soon...I would die without a computer and the internet....

flapjacs said...

Yes, it's an addiction says me at 12.36 am surfing the blogs.

Nay said...

I hope you have found a solution to your computer troubles. I know I couldn't live without mine - it is my life line!

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M said...

I am another internet addict so I totally feel your pain!!! I was very relieved that one of my neighbours has an unsecured wireless connection because I think I would have gone crazy while I waited for the broadband to be connected!!

Vicky said...

You're back! I hope you had a refreshing and peaceful weekend away!

I hope that your computer woes will be fixed quickly so we can be back in regular contact again. Hope you didn't have as much snow as we did...

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