My troubles are many

Whoa, the new blogger interface is now a fact.  I just typed several paragraphs which disappeared for no reason.  I also have the left side of the screen to type on, while the right side is taken up with "Post Settings"  I wonder about the whiz kid that thought that up.

I wrote my last entry a week ago when I returned from a weekend camping trip.  For several days I felt really awful - no pains or anything serious - just a lack of energy and maybe even a little depression, which I haven't quite chased away as yet.

Things go wrong at the worst possible time, although maybe it's the best possible time.  We just don't realize it yet, and maybe never will.  A few days ago my cameras started to go bad.   I've given up on the Minolta and will have to take the camera to a real camera store so they can safely remove the film and develop it.   The digital is also acting weird and will probably give out soon.  I've been looking   
at cameras recently and finally decided to buy one at Costco online.  It sounds like it has the features I'm  looking for and the price was right.  I expect delivery tomorrow or the next day, and I'll write more about it when it is delivered.

Yesterday I followed my usual routine of turning the MiFi on, taking the laptop into the kitchen and setting it on the table while I make coffee and take my couple of prescriptions.  When I opened the computer I somehow knocked over a nearly full glass of water.    Expletives deleted, but I might have shocked a sailor.

I turned the computer upside down and set a towel underneath it while trying to absorb all the water with another towel.  I finally dared to try using it, and fortunately was able to retrieve a draft email, make corrections, and send it off before the computer started acting crazy.  Within an hour I realized it was a pretty bad situation so I took it to the Apple Store.  OMG, not only was the mall crazy crowded, but the Apple store was a zoo.  The best they could do was to give me an appointment for today at 12:15.

I had a bad feeling about the state of my MacBook, and since I have been thinking I need something as a backup, I went to Costco and purchased an Acer notebook (or netbook, whatever).  It was a fairly good price but small enough to make me sorry within a few hours.  I got it up and running and am using it now.

This morning I had an appointment to give 7 vials of blood at the UCD Med Center lab nearby, and then went to my Apple appointment.   They couldn't do anything about the MacBook except to send it away for a complete overhaul for the price of a new computer.   I asked them to see if my hard drive was also totalled or if the data could be retrieved, which they did and which it can.  So I bought an I-Mac, 23-1/2" screen that comes with all controls built into the screen that sits upon a stand.  It also comes with a cute little wireless keyboard and a wireless mouse unlike any mice I' ve ever seen.  I spent over an hour with what has to be their nicest employee learning the amazing things I will be able to do with the i-Mac.  So although it doesn't have the portability of a laptop, the large screen will be much easier for me to see and work with.  Meanwhile, I can take this Microsoft piece of crap with me when I have to go someplace.

When I got home I had a phone message waiting from my credit union's security center wanting to make sure I had indeed been the one to make all my recent purchases.   I told them yes, so they removed the block on my account.  (I had written a check for the I-Mac.)   I'm now stone broke!  I also don't feel much better although I am excited to pick up my new computer in a day or two.  I had to leave it so they can transfer the data from my old hard drive, and I'm keeping my fingers crossed it will all come through intact.  I hadn't realized how much of my life was on that computer.

In looking this over before hitting Publish, I realize that the title "My troubles are many" should also be followed by "and my blessings are many as well".   I need to erase the troubles from memory and replace them with the blessings, although that is probably not possible.