Black Cloud

I pride myself on being a positive person. I am a firm believer that if you are positive, you attract positiveness and positivity. Well in the last month it seems like a black cloud has attached itself to me, but I am staying upbeat to get through it.

No sooner do I blog about polarized sunglasses taking the place of love then my sunglasses crack at the nose. This would be understandable if I sat or stepped on them, but I pulled them out of my pocket to run my errands du jour and voila. I'm guessing the gods did not appreciate my comparison with love. I have sent them back to Maui Jim's with 10.00 and fingers crossed.

Next I am heading up to bed for the evening with a full glass of water, and see something on my desk that needs to go upstairs with me. I grab it with the same hand that my water is in and 2 seconds later the full glass of water is saturating my 11 month old Apple Macbook.

F...!!!! I wipe everything down as I watch the screen fade to black. I continue with the toweling off, cursing my butter fingers. I go to bed promising my first born to all the computer gods.

The next morning I turn the computer on, and the screen comes up and I am over the moon. One week later I insert a disc and nothing happens except a funny noise coming from within. I take the computer into the Apple Store and explain the details to the clerk. He sends it to the Apple repair store. The next day I get a call explaining that my computer has been....and I quote, "Catastrophically Compromised". The mother board will cost 800.00 to replace. They send it back....still compromised.

Now losing the apple is no big deal. It was always more computer than I would ever master. It was all the photos and music that it contained. All my trips..... Panama, Costa Rica, Tuscon, Hawaii and all my weekend getaways in between. I have come close to calling Terry a few times for a disc, but I'm sure he can do without that, so I won't bother him. I never really blogged about those trips, so I don't even have blog photos. Oh well...

I have since bought a Toshiba with Windows and love it. I actually know how to use all the extras.

This whole experience has made me miss the good old days. When I used to spill things on my desk all I had to worry about were a few pages sticking together. Some of my old address books are priceless.

There have been a million other little inconvieneces, but I have spent enough time whinning. I will now go put my big girl panties on and start my day.

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