We made it back safely from our trip to New Zealand and Rarotonga right on schedule late Sunday night. I have a mountain of stuff to do this week both for my day job (managing money) and my volunteerism (fire department) so I set about trying to prepare a little late Sunday.The other day I mentioned my five year old Lenovo laptop died so the first thing I did we turn on the netbook we have, which will be my back up until I get a new computer, to charge the battery and update Norton. I then tried to fire up the Lenovo and it turned on! I am writing this post on it. I do not know if this strengthens or weakens the case for it not being able to tolerate the electricity in NZ and Rarotonga but either way I am pretty stoked. I am still going to get a new Lenovo this week (either Best Buy, Costco or order one) but it will be much easier to transition to a new machine if the old one still works (hopefully it fires up again on Monday morning).
I will have a normal blog post up on Tuesday. Thank you for sticking with me through this long trip. Joellyn had a milestone birthday and I wanted to make a big deal of it. Apologies for not keeping up with the comments while we were away but that is difficult to do when time is more restricted than normal.There are still a couple of hundred pictures from the Cook Islands that I need to add in to the folder for the trip, today's pictures are from the first couple of days in Raro.
5 comments:
Welcome back, Roger. It probably won't suit your business needs, but I now love my iPad more than deep dish pizza. If you hit Best Buy, at least give it a try.
Actually if I traveled more for business having one, in addition to a laptop of some sort would be essential.
Roger, I wouldn't even want to guess about the old laptop. It could be any of 1000 things, and I say this as an electronic failure anaylsis engineer. We call it the EE fix. Something breaks, you threaten to replace it, and it mysteriously starts working again.
Two cheap laptops (even used) will be far more reliable than a single new expensive one. Or get a nice one and a cheap one.
Rich
I'll just throw in a plug for regular backups. Keep everything in one parent directory, copy that directory to a USB stick once a week. Has saved my butt at work several times.
I bought a Lenovo a year ago and love it! Also have an iPad that I purchased when I started blogging more regularly a few months back. The iPad is ADDICTIVE!
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