This is a crosspost from Incogblogo at her ubiest
My beast of a laptop is now in the shop. (yes again*) We'd hope that maybe it was something simple like a power cord failure. IF we can fix it for a reasonable price then we well. IF we can't I am getting a new one. I don't know which I want more. A new one - or mine back so that I can get back to doing my shows n shit! Having to share with the hubby (or use the ridiculously show desktop) sucks. A bit of good news is that I should be able to get a new one before the end of Jan if we go that route, but it's a big expense and I'm not too much looking forward to that. Also hoping that I don't have sound card issues. See, I guess I lucked out on my old clunker of a laptop cause it works perfectly with Audacity and Shoutcast to do my show. Hubbies does not. I have to switch things around AND I can't record the whole show because it will ONLY record whats coming thru the mic. It's because of the sound card, and my worry is my new one will have the same sort of issues. Which will make me very VERY sad. But, there are fixes for it, they're just expensive. Like I said, I'm not sure what I want. Mine - back, fixed, and ready to go OR a Shiny new laptop that's light and pretty and brand spanking that won't crash on me several times a day.
I'm fighting a cold. It will not win. I gave blood yesterday so I was kinda wiped at the end of it, but I'm doing better today. Running late cause apparently I SET my alarm but didn't turn it on. Good thing my job has a flexible schedule. Go me :-) I'm also still using Twitter a lot. You can see my badge in the last entry (here) and it updates when I do. Which is a lot because I can do it from my cell phone when I am at work. There aren't many things I actually CAN do from my cell phone - but txt messages is one of them so it's super cool! :-)
*You might not know, but the day after Christmas the computer just died and then wouldn't turn back on. It would act like it was going to, and actually sometimes start, but then it would just die again. I had to do my show in KC (with my mom and dad - that I still haven't been able to edit and upload) on my husband's computer and it was a nightmare. Yesterday makes it three weeks that I've been without my own laptop. IT makes me feel funny. Also - it's totally changed the way I interact with the internets. For small short bursts and not much chatting or listening to iRadio.
