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| Friday, August 24, 2007 |
| It's been awhile... |
Is now a good time to come out of hiding?
No time like the present, I suppose!
Confession: I'm blogging from work.
Reason? *Sniff!* My laptop is down and out for a couple of days so I can't do my "real" work right now. You never realize how much your life depends on your computer until it dies on you for a day or so.
Yep, old faithful isn't working. Darn power-cord decided to give out on me and it doesn't really have any battery-power to speak of.
I've been pushing myself extra hard with work this past week and I can't figure out whether to be really thankful that I did that or to think that the Lord's trying to teach me a lesson on working in the arm of the flesh...
I'm going to go for the "very thankful" option and practice extreme praise right now:
I'm SO happy that it's just the power cord and not something like the hard drive...*shudder*
*Knock on wood*
A super blessing out of this is that it showed me that I probably need to go ahead and break down and get a new computer. I've been putting it off because mine "technically" still works...
Granted, it's very slow...it acts up on me more these days...it's given me a few "blue-screens-of-death"...it only has about 5 minutes of battery power...and it's getting a bit old.
So, PTL, new computer here I come! I'll miss that little baby though. It's been very faithful to me.
On a completely different topic, I've discovered something about myself:
I hate hellos
In fact...
I hate goodbyes as well...
Not in the traditional sense of "not wanting to say goodbye", but simply because in both cases I never know what to do.
With hellos, my mind goes completely blank, I forget the person's name (EVERY time), I don't know whether to hug them, or wave, or shake their hand, or stop what I'm doing and hang out with them, or if I'm supposed to do something for them, or what they want from me!
So I just stand there...
With a dazed look on my face...
Possibly mutter a weak "hi" to them...
And pray desperately that they either make the first move or state what they want quickly so we can be over and done with this torture scene.
It's not unlike me to hide for a good hour or so if I know that we're going to have visitors because I can't stand the thought of having to go through the awkward ritual of greeting someone.
It's very much the same with goodbyes. Hug? Wave? Shake hand? Chit-chat?
I get so lost.
Generally I try to bolt for the door as soon as possible--maybe throwing out a fast "bye guys! I'll see you later!" praying against all hope that no one will stop me before I make it out of there.
As soon as I get outside, I'll breathe a sigh of relief and be so thankful that it was all over...
So, word to the wise, if you've ever come to see me and upon seeing you for the first time I act awkward and don't say much, or if I'm visiting and you suddenly discover that I've left inexplicably--don't take it personally.
My mind simply has a block against greetings and farewells. I like you just the same.
And if I do greet you? Be flattered. It took a lot of work!
See YOU at the Core. Amen? |
posted by Woozers @ 3:11 PM  |
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I'm just curious, mine was in the same state after three years. How old is (was) your laptop?
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My laptop is a hand-me-down from two previous owners, so I'm not exactly sure of the age of it. I think it's probably 3-4 years old as well. It's a Toshiba and it's been a pretty sturdy little machine for what I've used it for (secretarial work). I'm tempted to get another Toshiba to follow in this one's footsteps but I'm going to shop around to see what's out there. This was my first laptop, so I don't have much to base my feelings on what's reliable and what's not as far as laptops go, so we'll see.
Anyone have any suggestions or inspiring testimonies of a good laptop was that you'd like to share?
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Boo.... I miss you! Can't wait to see you in Puerto Rico. We're gonna party it up, right?? Right.
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Toshiba Rocks!
Dell is alright
HP Sucks!
Compaq is owned by HP
Sony is expensive C**P
:-) Hope that helps!
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I use mac and rather like it! Praying for your time at the core. xxx
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I'm just curious, mine was in the same state after three years. How old is (was) your laptop?