Laptop Mitosis

I had a Master Plan, which involved earning money from now until Christmas and buying myself a new laptop around that time, since my old one was getting a bit... gimpy.

However, all of these plans were scuppered last night when my old laptop attempted mitosis and found that it only really works for single-celled organisms. Less basically, the plastic case at the bottom broke and a little metal bar that fixed the left hinge connecting the screen and the keyboard side lost its anchorage, so the thing suddenly started separating on the left side. Now the screen only works if you tilt it right back and apply pressure in just the right place, and even then the screen'll stop working if you breathe on it.

So today I spent £500 on a new laptop, and an additional £200 on getting it completely covered for the next three years (since the old one only lasted two and a half).

Unfortunately, since my bank account didn't contain £700 at the time, I had to spend money that is being saved for Important Life Moments When Lots Of Money Is Rather Useful.

But yeah, I have a new laptop now, and if it doesn't last at least six months longer than the old one, PC World have to replace it.

I spent a rather stressful afternoon saving files from the sinking ship of my old laptop and trying to figure out the password of our internet from a badly handwritten note on the bottom of an unrelated letter (which in all honesty took about three hours).

So all things said and done, I'm glad it's just about sorted, though rather sad to have lost all of my favourites from since I started using Google Chrome. The result of all this is that I've missed the Happy Feelings that normally come with buying new technology and I instead feel rather bad about spending the money. But I guess there wasn't much else I can do about it; hopefully happy feelings will come when I discover how much better this new laptop is compared to the train-wreck of my old one. Never buying an Asus ever again...