Yesterday my laptop just crashed and no amount of rebooting and system restoration would bring it back to sanity. Unfortunately, I had a number of photos on it, and I just had to let go of them all. Without a laptop it felt like I was off life support. In spite of a bad bout of cold and sickness, I jumped into my car and ran to the nearest electronics store, where I had purchased my year old laptop. After two hrs of standing in line and signing paperwork (which probably took more time than the laptop restoration itself), I finally got a big fat bulky loaner laptop that I bought home. And after yet another 3 yrs of setup, including MS office anti-virus software etc. (especially with the sucky slow Windows Vista), my loaner laptop was ready. In total, I had spent about 8-10 hrs from the time my laptop crashed to the time I had a new functional laptop. What an utter waste of time!
However, it was interesting to watch myself yesterday, as I tried to get my laptop to restore or run to the nearest retail store to get the loaner laptop. There are only few things that make me behave this feverishly – one is my Laptop and the other is wireless Internet at home. I think I can live without many things, but my laptop and Internet I can’t.
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