Darn Technology

We have had a few set backs with the electronics in our house. We had 2 laptops that decide to die within about a week of each other. One was getting quite old anyway, so we weren't too shocked there. The other was a 4.5 month or so old HP laptop. I put it down to go eat, and when I came back about an hour later to finish up whatever I had been doing it just didn't work anymore. Went online to see about warranty/customer support and they claim we have had our computer much longer. According to them, it was registered quite some time before we ever had it in our possession (about 9 months before). We, of course, have no receipt and my husband bought it in Greece, so there is no chance of us getting a copy of the receipt from the store. Took the hard drive out, and we will likely try to sell it for parts. Then that will be that with laptops for us, unless a very valid reason to have one comes up again.

That whole debacle left us with one desktop and an iPad. Well, the desktop left for a bit, so I was left with an iPad. Which is great for a lot of things, but as your primary computer, not so great. It is very inconvenient to write long posts on, or do anything too in depth. I couldn't upload my photos from my camera either. That's why I hadn't posted anything in awhile. It was a huge pain doing the one post I did do from my iPad (the Birchbox post), so I decided to just hold off.

I will say I have learned a lot from this. The desktop is one of the 'build it yourself' varieties. My husband had just about enough spare pieces around to build this second computer. I got to finish assembling it myself. Proud to say it is fully functional and I troubleshot all the problems I ran into on my own (or with a lot of help from Google and YouTube, but hey I did it). I think one or two more things will make it just about perfect. Already missing my SD card reader and debating on a webcam. The iPad is okay for Skype, but difficult with a wiggling toddler who wants to get 2 inches from it and likes to push the red phone touch screen button frequently.

Anyway, I have a few things to post about. I'll try to spread them out a bit instead of just bombarding the blog with posts.