Still Kicking!

I am here!  I am alive!  I am typing this up on my brand-new computer!

I don't think I ever went into it here, but almost exactly 6 months ago (February 17th, to be exact), I came home from work, flipped open my computer, tried to go online and discovered that the screen was no longer working (and for all I knew, the entire computer might have been shot).  I made a panicked trip to the Best Buy in Aiea as soon as they opened the next day.  The service was rather horrible but eventually I learned my screen was gone and would cost $500 to repair.  $500 for a piece-of-crap 5-year-old computer that should have been recalled!? Uh, no.  I told the guy I could buy a new computer for that.  "You could." I told him I didn't have $500 and what could I do in the meantime?  I finally asked him straight-up if I could hoop it up to a monitor.  "You could." And what would I use to do that? "There are cables back there somewhere." Thank you oh so much for stellar service.  So for the past 6 months, my computer time has been curtailed by the necessity of having my laptop hooked up to an external monitor and the horribly uncomfortable (but totally cute) desk chair in my bedroom.  Until last night.  Last night, I took my meager savings and finally went to Best Buy (where I was well taken care of this time) and I bought a brand new Dell Inspiron for significantly under the $500 it would have cost me to repair my old computer. Viva Technology! My only regret is that I work tonight and therefore will have to get off my computer in three hours to start getting ready.

Now, I'm trying to get caught up on all the things I fell behind in while my computer was equal to the chair of torture.  Okay, I admit, that is mostly manga...