Back in business. Clean-up blog.

After an exhaustive process that almost included the Better Business Bureau, my laptop is finally fixed and running golden again.

Which is a sweet relief like no one knows.

I'm a person who prefers mostly constant set-ups for different things. When I play fantasy games where you pick a job class, I almost always pick a mage or a magic person. For writing, I love my low profile, mechanical keys on my laptop with my years-old Logitech mouse. (I also despise track-pads.) So to be typing long passages on my dad's computer, with its raised key keyboard, was hard on my nerves. I appreciate being able to use his computer to write, do homework, and play at least one computer game, but the fact remains... NOT AGAIN!

Basically, this will be a short little clean-up post to try and clue anyone who's been keeping up with me into what's been going down.

The Advanced Resolution Specialist - Sanjay from Dell told me that, as a courtesy, they'd send a tech out to me to replace all the mechanical parts in my laptop. ALL of them. I agreed, because I really had no other options at this rate. The tech called me last Friday morning and said he could come that afternoon.
An hour and a half after he arrived he left. (I found out during our conversations that he's a staff member for Otakon, a convention I go to every year.)

Presto! Boom. Laptop fully functional again. Working like a dream and quieter than the dead.

I set myself up to use it again and have been working in bliss this whole time.

Next topic: My old boss called me last Saturday to tell me that the gentleman I had based my now defunct short story (Vinnie Morgue) had passed away. He'd passed a few months prior, and we heard it second hand. It's a shame, and I find myself wondering how his last few weeks were.

Next: I've been reading the Game of Thrones series. I've working on A Game of Thrones for weeks now and I find myself really drawn into the slow, plodding style that Martin writes with. The language, violence, and sex don't bother me nearly as much as I thought it would. Surprise.

Next: I love this keyboard.

Next: A woman was looking for me at my previous job for months and finally located me. Her husband passed lat year and she wanted to give me one of his old key-organs (keyboard organ) for the church to use. I'm not one to turn down free equipment either.

Sadly, that is all I can think of for now. Ah well. I'll have more at some point when I think of it.