Taking out my aggression

Yesterday morning, I woke up at a reasonable hour, say 9:00, and I was very excited. There are about 5 computers in my household, three that actually work, and 1 that is connected to the internet. Well, 2 now I suppose. But yesterday was supposed to be the day that I have been waiting for for about 2 years...We were going to get wireless internet on the laptop! Mostly my laptop. You can see why I would be thrilled about this, right?

So the wonderfully techyfull computer man came to our house at 10:30 am. He didn't leave until around 1 pm I think...And he didn't give us wonderful news. He managed to get our other desktop computer hooked up wirelessly, but not the laptop. No, of course not. Never the laptop. And besides this awful not-wireless happening on the laptop, we heard that if we use it much more it will crash. We didn't do anything wrong, it's just that there are a whole bunch of corrupted files and the thing is 5 years old. Now, we had the option of paying $300 to have it fixed, or just buy a new one.

Haha, now here comes the really hilarious bit. Neither of my parents ever have any money, curse those dang bills, and they're always borrowing from me. Are you sensing where this is going? Huh? Yep, that is correct. I am the only one that has money, therefore, I am the one that has to buy the new laptop. Isn't that hilarious? Thank god I have money that I've saved in my bank account. I got more money from graduation and my birthday than I realized.

I'm ok with buying the new laptop myself. Then it will actually be my laptop and my parentals will have to ask my permission before they use it! Ha! The only real problem with this situation is that I can be an incredibly impatient person, and I don't want to wait forever (or what seems like forever) to find a notebook that they family can agree on. The guy who brought us this awful news belongs to a place that we could get a refurbished laptop from, but I'm afraid that it would take a long time to get a good one that I want. The upside from getting it from them, would be that I would know that it was in good working order, and there wasn't a bug or anything. On the other hand, I found one on the Internet that I like. And the other option is that my mother might get a discount if she uses her Marian College Faculty status...Who knows what's the best way to go? I sure don't. This really is an annoying situation, though.

Oh, and I forgot to mention the other glitch. It goes by a very posh name: Windows Vista. Yeah, the new operating system with all the glitches. We can't (well we could, but we're not going to)buy a brand new notebook because the posh brand-new operating system has bugs and makes your computer run slowly and junk. Grrr...Now I'm on the hunt for notebooks with the good old trustworthy XP. That's the upside of the notebook I found on the Internet. It was made for XP. And it's new. Yay! But, how do I know what I'm really getting when I buy it off the Internet? Is that really a good way to go? Oh jeez, I don't know. Deep down, I don't think so. We'll probably end up getting it from the techyfull guy, or Best Buy, or somewhere local. Haha, Best Buy. That reminds me of a story the Magnificent Mikayla told me about her search for her new computer. Let me just say it involves a rude store manager, two aggravated customers, and many loud obscenities. *snicker*

On a related topic, my mother is planning to pay me to finish her website. My mother is an artist, and she has a show coming up, so she wants me to get it finished before then. Now that's a job I'll enjoy. Here's a link to the current egg: http://leahsart.tripod.com/ I'll let you know when I finish. It should be jazzy. Hahahaha. That reminds me...There was an ad to "Pimp your page" and I teasingly asked Mom if that's what she wanted. She asked Dad what that meant and he said that it meant "fancying it up" so Mom said Yeah, that's what she wanted. I burst out laughing. My mother, the artist, who keeps mostly to earthy themes, wanted her page pimped. That's beyond funny. I can't help it...*giggles*

Ahhh, I'm all calmed now. See what letting out your aggression does for you? This song is very soothing, by the way.
Mercy Street - Peter Gabriel

Have an un-aggravating afternoon!