meisa's lagoon

dellisimo finally died. that would be my dell laptop. kaput. never to turn on again.
it seemed to be on a weekly cycle. every friday for a month was a milestone on its journey to death. and this last friday was when it finally just wouldn't turn on anymore. i called dell and they determined that my motherboard needed to be replaced...a $500 endeavor. no thanks.
so i say goodbye to it, and with it many of the emails sitting in my inbox, a handful of things i'd done for work, all my links in my favorites (hence the lack of blogging), and most of all the little bubbling beaker icon i had that replaced the hourglass when windows was "thinking". luckily, before i dissected the machine 2 weeks ago, i backed up most of the stuff i care about, but i don't yet have a machine to load it on to (please excuse my lack of emailing if you haven't heard from me...i just don't know your email address right now). but i guess i'm pretty lucky that i still have it all.
i'm going to try to access the hard drive and get some of this stuff back and then wipe it clean before trying to sell it on ebay. khalid's brother, also known as the king of ebay, has agreed to sell it for me, so hopefully he can get a couple hundred bucks for the parts.
it's kind of exciting, i guess, to get a new computer. a pain to load it with all the stuff, but it will be nice to have something that doesn't take 10 minutes to start and freak out on me when i have more than 3 programs running at once. right now, i'm using our group laptop - an IBM thinkpad. i'm loving it...so speedy and smooth. maybe my next one will be even better than this.