intensive care…

This weekend, my computer began freezing and crashing. Now, most of you probably don’t think much of this phenomenon, but since I have a Mac, I was entirely freaked out.

I packed it up in a little case and made an appointment at the Apple store, which, since it’s President’s Day weekend, was positively overrun with people who wanted to buy/repair/return/drool at iPods. I was so glad I made an appointment.

You discover a lot of things when you spend four hours at the genius bar in your local Apple store, mostly that most people don’t have the slightest clue how to work their iPods. I was one of two people that had actual computer problems all day. And one person’s computer problem was that they’d purchased a lemon. My computer is not a lemon,a nd in fact, has been working fine almost the entire time I’ve owned it. I also learned that I should have a “dot mac” account, in order to do backups. I am very happy to have this info.

So, practical upshot, my ‘puter is a very very sick little puppy. Something about the logic board, or perhaps the hard drive.

Anyway, it’s broke, and now I’m waiting to hear from the nice “genius” at my local Apple store (his name is Yousef, he’s quite the cutie, and we got to know each other pretty well during the four hours I spent at the Apple store yesterday) about whether or not it’s going to make it. The last I saw of it, they’d cleaned it all up (amazing how grubby that white keyboard can get) and made it look, unfortunately, a bit like it had been made up at an undertaker’s office for its final burial. NO! No, I won’t let myself think of that. I’m sure it will be fine. Poor baby. It was all alone there last night, sick and scared, probably… my computer, my love…

I wouldn’t want to have to buy a new one right now. It’s just… money I don’t need to be spending in this contract. Plus, buying a new computer would most likely necessitate purchasing another copy of MS Office, since I use Word, and Gates makes you pay through the nose for the Apple version of that shizzit. Though those new intel-chip ones look real purty…

NO! My computer will be fine! Yousef will save it, I know…