We are finishing up our third full week of school.
I've spent most of this time just getting adjusted to a new schedule of having Kristin only in school a half day. She stayed home from school today, this is the second cold since school started.
She's gotten more demanding and aggressive about things, and when her classwork involves coloring, she will get impatient and not color as well as I know she can. She doesn't seem to care about staying inside the lines, like it bores her. And she throws more powerful fits now at bedtime, dinnertime and bathtime. I don't know yet if this is a sign of her being bored at school and manifesting itself this way, or if she's simply getting older.
My computer is aging too. It's an old laptop, maybe 8 or 9 years old and pretty obsolete. Several times lately when I started it up, the monitor wouldn't come on and I'd have to start it 3 or 4 times before I got any screen. Since it's the only computer I have right now capable of doing my job, I'm afraid to turn it off anymore, so I haven't for a week, although I do use sleep mode, it hasn't had a problem with that, thank God. If I lost the screen, it would be disasterous to lose everything I have on the computer.
Usually, when I blog, it's after Kristin's gone to bed and Toney and I are sitting in the living room watching tv and surfing. I'm afraid to move my computer now, in case the power accidently goes out (the battery doesn't charge much anymore and the power cord often pops out when the laptop is moved around). So I don't have the computer in the living room anymore and I have to go into the office if I want to surf, so I haven't been online much in the evenings.
I'm hoping by the end of the month to be able to get a new laptop.
Aging hits everything. I don't even want to talk about my knees.
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We have two desktops, one of which is only four years old, while the other is two years old. But both of them make some really strange noises. Mostly from the fans, which rattle and grind every now and then. Just tonight the older desktop's fan was making a horrid grinding noise. I gave the back fan grill a hard knock and it suddenly sounded normal again.
So, just like humans, things start getting loose and falling off when computers age!
My laptop does that too. I had to buy a new power cord...$80! But still the screen flickers in and out. I backed up everything onto an external hard drive (~$100) for the inevitable day when it craps out.
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