Lappy

Some people are mystified by computers. When their computer malfunctions they imagine that the machine has turned against them. I can't claim to exactly be computer savvy, but I know that everything happens for a reason. And I knew that when Lappy refused to let me past the log in screen yesterday, it was probably my fault.

Yesterday morning, while eating my daily bowl of cereal, I was checking my e-mail. The updates icon started jumping and instead of clicking on "remind me later" as I have been doing for months, I said, "What the heck." But about five minutes into the update process I changed my mind. I really wanted to read my e-mail right then. And the updates were taking a long time. I clicked the red x. Nothing happened. I tried alt, open-apple, esc. Nothing happened. I pushed the power button. Lappy turned off. Good, now I was back on track for checking e-mails. But when Lappy came back on and I tried to sign in, the screen changed like I was going to get in to my computer and then....no, back to the log in screen. John says one of the updates probably affected the log in and I didn't let it finish updating, so it got stuck.

I drew myself some pictures of what firewire cable endings look like and rode into town by myself. (John was too sore to ride his bike anymore and I didn't want to walk.) I actually managed to buy all the correct things and kept them from flying out of my basket with the bungee cords John got for me the other day!

Today, Lappy is still not better, but I have high hopes. John is a computer genius man. And I....I am gaining proficiency the hard way.