I’m violating my “working on Sunday” rule and posting today because I’ve suffered a major loss in my life this weekend. Yes, I’m wearing all black and I’m prone to fits of crying because the screen (or the graphics chip… whatever, don’t care) on my loyal laptop died on Saturday morning.

All of my files, data, emails… basically my life is trapped on this now worthless piece of metal and plastic. Ugh. The pain of it all. And yet, (sunshine emerges… birds singing) goody goody gumdrops, the joy of shopping for a new machine.

As a nod to my absolutely wonderful Creative Director, James, I seriously seriously seriously gave thought to and deeply investigated converting to a Mac. I really wanted to switch, but it doesn’t support two of my “I’ve gotta have ‘em” applications… OneNote and MindManager. (Actually, Mac does support MindManager, but I’d have to buy the software all over again.) Can’t break the addiction.

So, ordered a Dell and it should be here Wednesday afternoon. Meanwhile, my posts will be hit or miss this next week, so please be patient with me as my access to PCs has now resorted to wandering around like a homeless person with a portable hard drive begging for a screen. “Buddy, can ya spare a display?”