I seem to be on a string a borken bits and pieces in my life. Perhaps God is showing me that I've gotten too comfortable with my material things. Or I'm just hitting a bunch of random coincidences. I alluded to it in this entry, but here is a full story.

( broken and fixed )

All in all I came out of the laptop thing relatively unscathed. I have a laptop that works better now than it has in a year and will hopefully last me another two years or so (it was originally purchased in 2004 making it 3 years old, but it has had a new hard drive now, a mother board a year ago, a new power source 18 months ago, a new screen 9 months ago, etc. It's practically been rebuilt).

And best of all, I used the money I didn't spend on a laptop to buy a really fun new digital camera this weekend. Yay! I'm all ready for my seattle trip!