Oh, how I have missed being online! A few weeks back on a sunny Sunday afternoon my poor computer shut down and after repeated attempts to restart it the horror of the situation began to sink in. My computer was offically broken! Over a year of reliable service and it bit the biscuit. After some staring into space, I moved my lazy a$$ into my spare room and watched some movies for the rest of the day. Funny enough my old DVD player was completely dead as well when I went to turn it on, so thank goodness the VCR still worked. I had a work conference over the next couple of days so got to watch the news on Tuesday morning , but the rest of the week was spent watching my old video tapes: Breakfast Club - classic!, Mission Impossible, Braveheart, Star Wars trilogy - unspoiled version, Lion King, Robin Hood - Disney version & my favourite, etc. I felt so isolated and out of touch from the world. Granted, I could actually call people but that's completely out of my comfort zone. I did check my e-mail online when I could from work but it was hard to take enough time from my lunch hour to do it often. As it is the hour zooms by and suddenly I have to work again. I thought I would stay after hours to go online & get on Facebook but the company system blocks the site, to my complete dismay, so no Facebook for me. I think that was the hardest part of the whole ordeal. Recovering from a Facebook addiction is brutal. But, it's now been almost 3 weeks (this Sunday), and I am officially over it, though I admit to having thought about Facebook often - what song I should switch to, what mood I would be in, what stupid crap people were posting on my Fun Wall. After the first week of videos, and missing the first episode of Heroes which was just the icing on the cake, I moved my ridiculously heavy old T.V. into the living room, broke & bent up the electronic panel on the bottom because it was too heavy & I rested it on the sofa en route, and hooked it up to the cable. That was a happy moment for me, despite the fear that my T.V. may catch on fire or something because I broke it. I got to watch the morning news, the 2nd episode of Heroes, and just be somewhat normal again. As an extra kick when I'm down though, I had to re-adjust to the lack of a remote for the T.V. (I dropped the remote in a cup of coffee a few years back). I can hook up the T.V. with the VCR & use that remote but I can only change the channel linearly (is that spelled correctly?) so if I want to go from channel 2 to 32 I have to go all the way through the 30 channels in between. Sure some people still live without electricity but I'm use to my technology so it was frustrating.
Anyways, I am now officially back. My computer is okay - though I still have no idea why it did that. The guy that helped me when I went to pick it up wasn't a technician so all he knew was that they replaced the power supply 'cause that's all it said on the tag. The why/how is a mystery. I guess I was expecting a list of what they did & a thorough explanation, like Toyota does when I take my car in for maintenance: Rotated the tires & they are at 20% blah blah, replaced filter cost of $20, etc. Usually, my eyes blur and I zone out when they go over it because I just can't absorb car talk, it's sort of a thing. But, all I get with the computer is a sketchy 'replaced power supply'. The important thing is the computer is home & still looks beautiful.
