Power Outage

A few people have emailed me asking why I have been MIA these past several days. Well here is a glimpse of why.

A few weeks ago I somehow managed to split my power cord to my laptop. DH claims it is because it seems to be attached to my hip and I have just over worked it –– whatever. So I had this injured power cord, but it managed to still work until I noticed smoke and small flames shooting out from it one afternoon. I immediately pulled it from the laptop and shut everything down.

I show my wonderful husband and of course he says "You don't need to order a new one honey. I'm super computer fixer-man and can fix it!" And dummy me, too worried about losing everything that I had not backed up on my laptop says "How I love you so! Please do." Okay maybe not in those exact words, but you get my point.

So after some soddering and heavy electrical tape you can see in the photo above everything appeared to work fine. At this point I **should** have ordered a new cord knowing that this was only a temporary fix. But should and doing are two different things. So Monday I was happily typing away when all of a sudden the connection between the power cord and the laptop completely goes out. And since my battery was damaged during the mini flame and smoke incident my laptop died in about 15 minutes.

My new power cord is set to arrive tomorrow via UPS and hopefully a new battery soon after. I am just keeping my fingers crossed that I somehow didn't damage my laptop in my stupidity. Until then I am forced to use my desktop computer in the office, where I have none of my files, bookmarks, address books and have a ton of work to complete (you know it would be too hard for me to have made sure both of my computers were synced and backed up together).

In the meantime, since I have actually been using my office, I have decided that I am in need of a new desk and reorganizing this room. Now that Sam is at preschool and I can actually be in here more often I want to make it more usable. Of course finding the time to do such a task may be difficult in the coming weeks. So if anyone has any favorite home furniture stores that have nice, yet cost effective desks let me know.

My name is Alexis...

And I am a Mac addict. Okay I admit it. I hate PCs. I find them user unfriendly, inflexible and just not very convenient. Plus they don't look as pretty sitting on a desk. Maybe it was because I learned on an Apple IIc back in the 80s. You know, the ones with the big floppy disk that were connected to a dot matrix printer that allowed you to play Pong.

Five years ago if you asked how many Mac users I knew I could only name a few. Now, it seem like almost everyone I talk to is a Mac convert, is planning on converting soon (especially with the new Intel processors and coming loaded with Windows XP) or is thinking of converting. Even Matt who always complained about my Apple loyalty has been caught drooling over the newly released Macs.

Last night at Emily's gymnastics practice the owner came running up to me as I sat and surfed the net. (I love going to a gym with wireless) He had just bought a new Mac, yes the one fully loaded with all the Intel and XP bells and whistles (lucky man) and was excited to see someone else with a Mac. I wonder what my chances are of getting to tinker on that machine.

So in honor of all my fellow Mac lovers (and I know several read this blog) I am posting one of my favorite Mac commercials. Even those not on a Mac will get a good chuckle out of it. Enjoy!!