oscar, did your ex offer to pick up your shovel and help you out or just enjoy bashing the neighbors?  Feel so bad for you with all the snow ~ we usually get walloped one last time in March but the weather guy seems to think we will just continue to have spring come early this year.  Bradford pears are already busting out all over, jonquils blooming, saw my first robin yesterday, and my redbud should be blooming soon so everything is looking up, and best of all, less than a month to the start of baseball.  That is my start of spring!!

Hi guys! 

I'm typing this using the touch keyboard on my brand new 27" touch screen monitor with my brand new gaming PC. 



Because my poor little baby, my less-than-18-months-old gaming laptop, died last week!  And I mean dead, stone cold dead, dead as a doornail.  I took it around to the computer repairers, just around the corner, and when they finally got back to me, the guy said, in a shocked voice, that not even the fan was working!  All I'd done was turn it off one night when I went to bed then try to turn it on when I woke up the next morning!  That was it!



I'm not sure if it's still in warranty or not as it's on the underside of the laptop and I've been running around all week, between the vampires and chemist and waiting for results from the laboratory (I'm now on antibiotics as they've finally found an infection), so I haven't had time to go back.  I've also been biking around in the freezing - and I mean that literally - rain or snow all week, which is definitely not one of my fav things to do.  Well, I don't mind biking in the snow, but gees it's been cold, with the winds today feeling like they're coming directly from the Siberian snowfields. When I got to the vampires earlier in the week I couldn't feel my face as it was frozen, and the only bit that isn't covered is just across my nose and cheeks!  We haven't had the snow that Oscar's had but it sure has been freezing biking around in the freezing temps!



Anyway, back to my new computer ... I was offline for a while and only got my new PC a few days ago and I only got it set up with my new monitor yesterday when it arrived.  I'm hoping I'll get a replacement laptop, assuming it's still under warranty, as it can't be fixed, but I don't actually need it until I go back to Sydney, now that I've got my new PC.  But all I can think about are all those games I was halfway through playing, all those TMs and M3s, and even one HOPA I was halfway through!



The guy said that he could retrieve any data I wanted from the HDD but, as you know, you have to download a game through a GM on that particular computer, you can't just copy games over.  But does anyone know if you can transfer the game folder with all the gameplay data?



But I made the most of not having the laptop and actually watched some TV and read some books whilst listening to some of my fav game music I'd downloaded to my Kindle!


 

stusue -- So sorry about your laptop!  You said you had it on, turned it off and tried to turn it back on the next day.  Ummmm...Does that mean you had it on continuously for 18 months?  That can't be right, I'm sure.

You ride your bike in the rain, freezing rain and snow? You're a better woman than I am!

Hope the antibiotics help.

Ooh... only 6 weeks between an announcement aboyut an election and the election.  And nothing on TV!  Sounds really good to this American!

Sorry about your laptop, stusue, but your new gaming PC and 27" monitor sound awesome.  I've never had a gaming computer, just my little old Dell's which have been very reliable and I do have a 22" monitor which I love.  Let me know how the new computer works out as I may consider getting one down the road when I decided to replace my Dell.  I usually keep mine 5 or so years and I'm at 3-1/2 right now.

Tiffany in her dog house bed