I fear that my loyal laptop, HIPPIE, is not long for this world. Soon he will be shooting through that invisible techno bridge, to live on a big data farm upstate.
HIPPIE has not really recovered from his near-drowning, when I spilled my morning medication water across his keyboard. A full red Solo cup!!! Oh, I thought I had drained and dried him out. But now HIPPIE is overheating. It started a couple days ago.
BLACK SCREEN OF DEATH!
Then a message on a DOS screen upon restart. I swear it said HIPPIE had reached 900 degrees! Wouldn't that set my wooden kitchen table on fire? And my lying pants? Perhaps I misread it. Seems that while I might be comfortable computing on the surface of the sun, roasting my achy knees... HIPPIE, himself, would not.
I seem to have about 2 hours before HIPPIE gets hot under the keyboard. I hear the fan running, but I suppose it's not effective.
NOW, today, HIPPIE has a new old idiosyncrasy. The space bar is cantankerous. That happened right after the near-drowning. Went away. and is back. You think you're typing right along, but then see you've created a 237-letter word. It's slow going when you have to watch what you're typing onscreen. And double- or quadruple-hitting the space bar before it works. Plus backspacing when you move on too fast.
I need to tell The Pony to bring out the "new" computer we got for me two Christmases ago.
I'll leaveyou with an exampleoftypingalong whileI think the space barisworking normally...
4 comments:
I have a brand new one sitting right next to me and yet I continue to use my old one. Yes, it will suddenly give me a black screen and then when I'm about to panic a little, it goes away. Now it has a new trick which is to give me a white screen or to freeze whatever screen I'm on. Either of which will mostly just aggravate me for a few seconds before returning back to normal, although I have myself convinced, I need to keep hitting the enter key or space bar (mine does still work, so far) before the frozen screen recovers. Sometimes, it goes to the warning page, and I just shut it all off and then turn it back on, and it recovers on its own and will allow me to restore my pages. I have to say, it is definitely in control of my internet experiences. It now happens every day, sometimes twice or more each day. It's just a matter of time before I have to crack open the new one, that sits and stares at me every day with all of its new updated glory. Ugh. Ranee
Rae,
That's the thing! It's nice to have a new one as backup, but you don't want to use it! I hate learning new things, when I just want to get right to what I've been doing for years.
HIPPIE sometimes freezes, and just gives me the spinning circle thing. Won't let me shut down properly. Just have to hold down the power button.
You have my condolences! I am just getting used to this new computer. Even though the letters were worn off the keys and it was a little slow to respond, I knew that computer. Like losing an old friend!
Kathy,
It's so hard to let them go!
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