Thank You Mrs. Brown: An Update...

California Girl at Heart at Thank You Mrs. Brown asked that I post the following update on her behalf:

To My Faithful Readers

My laptop, which has more lives than a cat, appears to be in the final throes of its long, ten year electrical life. Its hard black plastic case has been cracked from front to back and held together with sliver and red duct tape for several months now; the monitor finally gave out upon my return to California, the backlight not longer lit. The hard drive is still beating as far as I can tell, but who knows how long it will hold out. I think it will survive on life support for a while longer, tethered via a black cord to its power source, its green light blinking, while I use a friend's Mac to write this post.

But, all is not lost. I can have its memory transferred to a new hard drive once I buy a new laptop. Given my old laptop's apparent state of permanent decline, this is sad to say, but having just moved back to CA with most of my earthly belongings stuffed into three suitcases, I have other things higher on my priority list right now than buying a new laptop, like moving my furniture into my new place, once I find someone to move it. Finding some strong young backs to move my things is harder than I thought. Maybe I am just not looking in the right places, but the young don't seem to want to do this kind of physical labor. In addition to asking friends who have twenty-something year old adult children, I have tried Craig's List, with unimpressive results and am seriously thinking of heading over to Home Depot to hire someone who obviously wants to work, hoping I speak enough Spanish (which is dubious) or they speak enough English to communicate what box goes where.

So my friends, until I move and either get a new laptop, or at least a new monitor, this will be my last post for a week or two. I am still hopeful for the earlier date. Wish me luck with the move, and with my limited Spanish vocabulary. I will be back with my thoughts appearing in black and white in cyberspace in a week or two, one way or another.

Welcome back, California Girl at Heart. We missed you!