New Life

I haven’t written much this year as my laptop hard drive finally died at the end of January. By the time I found a moment to drop my laptop off to get a new hard drive and pick it up again almost a month had gone past and I have got out of the habit of writing down the happenings in my life. My second hand laptop has only cost me in total $600 (original price I paid plus the new hard drive four years later) and the new hard drive is guaranteed for another two years. As a bonus if we ever get robbed I don’t think my laptop will get stolen as it definitely looks its age! When I went to pick up my laptop it was easily the oldest laptop in for repair at the computer shop. So my computer has a new life now and definitely feels a lot stronger. I could have got a second hand hard drive but risked paying the extra $60 for a new one as I get the guarantee with it – only time will tell if that was the correct decision. I get the feeling that my computer guy doesn’t have much faith in my old laptop surviving much longer but the two of us (me and my laptop) have been through a lot and I think it will be with me for quite a while yet. Sometimes we are too quick to throw out the old when a bit of new life is all that is needed.