[technical difficulties]

My good old Sony VAIO laptop broke up with me. As soon as the new year started I guess it decided it was moving on. I can't complain too much since it served me well for almost four years. Now i'm going back to my first computer love- the Mac. My first personal computer was a Mac Performa (yes i'm dating myself). In college I had an iMac and then somehow someone convinced me to get a PC. Now here I am three PCs deep and I know it's time to return to Apple. So posts may not be as regular until I get my hands on my MacBook but when I do- watch out!

[internet blues]

Why oh why can't internet access be a community wide, free service? Should it really be a luxury when most of can't get through the day without it? If you are like us then you are usually tapping into some wireless network and not paying a dime to use the google machine. I mean I haven't paid to go online since 2002 or so.But it can really suck when the network you were so easily connecting to suddenly up and disappears. The first day you keep thinking it's a fluke occurrence and that your beloved network will magically re-appear. Then day after day you keep getting that dreaded windows message: sorry loser you just can't connect! Then it's off to the coffee shop for us internet deprived souls to try and jam as much of our personal internet business into a time slot.Unfortunately this impersonal method of using the internet is just not the same. I mean who doesn't love being able to stretch out on the couch and lazily get lost in the the bermuda triangle of websites? Or being able to google those random little questions that you might need answered at 2am like what size shoe does Michael Jordan wear? (according to WikiAnswers he wears a 13.)