Laptop Follies...

Well, last night the laptop decided that it didn't want to connect to the two wireless points in the house. It WOULD connect to the Minneapolis wireless, but not ours. I airblasted out the dust and crime, reseated the airport card and rebooted, even did a total powerdown by removing the battery. Nada. Fast forward to today. I find out from mirrdae that the second of our two wireless routers is also our DNS server. He tells me to reboot it, and I do... But no go. Then I get it in my head to do the same with the main wireless- And its working! Yay!

So, the laptop lives a while longer. However, I suspect that our Netgear wireless point may be starting to croak. O well, its cheaper to replace than a laptop. :)

Cue the Rollercoaster.

And the laptop is effectively dead. The power supply isn't charging, and its likely a connection inside the laptop casing itself that's the problem. Which means it IS repairable... IF I'm willing to dump another $300 into it. And I'm not. I'm going to try to get it repaired anyway, via friends, but this pretty much means I'm getting a new laptop.

Honestly... I don't want to. I LIKE the one i have, despite its problems. At 5 years old, it did everything I wanted it to do other than gaming... And I really didn't need to have it for games. But, 5 years plus is OLD for a laptop.

So I'm in the market, and I think I may be getting it before the weekend. (sigh) I know I was considering it before, but its necessary now. I do ALL my writing and such on the laptop. Everything. So I kinda need it. I'm hoping joshuwain's machine can charge my battery so I can at least strip the beast.

With luck, the folks might kick in some, but I can't hope for that- they got hit hard by the financial disasters.

What sucks more is that I just started writing a short story with my Traveller character Deyn, and was 9 pages in. :P