Computers and bad weather

Today I discovered what happens when your laptop falls 5 feet onto it's side corner.

Miscellaneous hard drive failure problems.

After spending 4 hours of dealing with a computer that kept locking up and rebooting every 5-10 minutes trying to backup all the files that I wanted (still could not get all my documents as they were in corrupted locations) I decided the effort of refomatting the drive and then hoping that the errors did not continue requiring a new hard drive was enough to consider a new laptop.
Into town I went in driving through a blizzard. Found what I wanted at a reasonable price, and drove back through the blizzard home with my new laptop. Lighter, faster, brighter, and much more memory and hard drive space.
The Vista Home operating system is a bit different after being used to XP Professional all these years.

I can't wait to be on the road to the Southwest. This has been the worst winter I have seen since I've been in Wyoming. Snow, wind, cold, and more snow. It got up to a high of 30 degrees (and 40 MPH gusts) today. That's the high til Wednesday where we are forcasted to hit 40.

Jobless II

Well, it's been since 30 November that I'm unemployed. Not that I'm complaining or anything. I've been able to ride outside during the week, wake up when I (or my dogs) want, work on my bathroom, and otherwise relaxed while others drove through the nasty weather that we have had in the last week.

The state requires that I apply at 2 employers a week to draw unemployment benefits. Any one want to vouch for receiving my employment application?

Oh Yeah,

Merry F'n XMAS