A Bit Of A Scare...

Last night, as is usual I was on the laptop chatting idly with people between rounds. It came to be time for my last round, and I moved to type a 'gotta go!' message. When I started typing, there was a 'zap!' sensation of a spark, and the laptop just froze, the screen image slowly degrading. This HAS happened before. Usually, just shutting it off and taking the battery out for a while gets things okay again- I dunno why, though I suspect it has something to do with the charge draining away.

Anyway, I tried this and... Nada. Nothing. I fiddled as much as I dared, then packed it up (battery taken out) with the sinking feeling that I'd just fried my expensive toy.

However, I tried starting it again, and it worked! I am DEFINITELY going to get everything backed up tonight!

I'm also rethinking my priorities in laptops. I mostly need it for internet and writing, and I want a keyboard no smaller than what I have now... It would be NICE if it could handle CoH, but... I don't need it to. So if and when this thing fails I'm prolly looking at something a lot cheaper than what I was earlier drooling over.

Hopefully, this won't be soon. But given that the keyboard is going out, one of the USB ports has a bad connection, as does the power cord socket, I may have to consider it sooner than later.

Spectravixen...

For those who know her, and those that don't, spectravixen was in a severe auto wreck the other day and is in the hospital, specifically Regions Hospital in St. Paul, Minnesota. It isn't recommended at the current time to mob the hospital with visitors, as she's in IC right now. I can't honestly say that I know her, but I'm fairly sure I've met her and her partner butterscotchvix. In any event... She's lost her right arm from the trauma, and had other sever injuries as well. See the LJ's above for information.

Why am I posting this? They need help. So I'm donating some money, and I'm hoping people will do so as well- the bills for this are going to be a nightmare, and her troubles have, honestly, just started. greenreaper put together a Paypal Donate button (Below), so if you can, use it. And if you pray, They need that too.