I finally got my replacement power cord. I decided to try a macwizards’ one instead of the Apple one.
So wish me luck.
This should mean I’ll be online more regularly and you know…read email, blog, etc etc etc.
I can’t wait!
:-)
I’m sure there is some way to get Arabic installed and usable by me on the ASUS. I’m sure my brother knows…but for now…who cares.
I start Arabic classes tomorrow.
Three days a week.
I missed orientation on Sunday (because I didn’t know). Hopefully they didn’t start anything. My brother went through more than 10 pages of the text with me. Do I remember anything? Well, the words I knew before and Maaah hatha? (What is it?) and Man hatha? (Who is it?). But we shall persevere.
I need to unearth notebooks.
Wish me luck.
I hope nobody laughs at me.
I feel so inadequate.
Inferior.
My powerbook’s powercord has a short.
It was smoking.
See…isn’t that a good reason for not really blogging for ages?
Isn’t it???
Unfortunately it only happened last night…the smoking that is.
I knew there was a short in it before…I just couldn’t admit it to myself.
A month or so ago, I noticed that although my powerbook was plugged on, it wasn’t lighting. I thought maybe the brick had died…and then after I reconnected it I thought maybe the plug slider was loose or even the socket had gotten loose and so the prong wouldn’t stay in the computer properly.
But then I noticed that I had to set the cord down properly…and not interfere with it.
It wasn’t the way the electric plug was connected to the brick.
I should’ve been smarter.
Something dangerous could have happened.
Last night I got up as I couldn’t sleep to go work on something.
Tbankfully I didn’t put on the light.
As I moved the laptop to my bed I noticed there were two lights lighting.
The brick was flickering.
See, the little thin cord that comes out from the brick, as it moved back and forth it was sparking and smoking.
FIRE!!!
If only.
I disconnected.
Hmm.
Should I unplug ALL my electric stuff at night?
Fires are scary.
Also.
I need a new power adapter.
My brother has one.
If I collect it from the service shop…(but but but…I seemed to have not blogged about this but my the bathroom in my brother’s bedroom leaked in july/august or something and their whole room was flooded and his laptop was on the ground and was submerged….death! so is it smart to use the allegedly working power cord that was submerged? I have a feeling not).
So…I need to buy one.
*sigh*
So, I replaced a battery after a year and a half and now powercord after 3 years. That’s not bad.
I’m just worried about it going up in flames again.
Do other people worry?
Man.
When I first built my desktop, I used to run around smelling it. I was always sure I was smelling something burning. I was SOOO paranoid.
But my room has good airflow from outside. And my neighbours are always burning things. Or welding. They send me crazy.
*sigh*
Thankfully it’s fully charged.
I’m using dad’s ASUS laptop (my desktop is downstairs for my brother and sister-in-law to use and iMac mostly used by mom and everybody else).
It’s hard. I’m using windows. And can’t recall what software to use!!!
Maybe I boot my laptop to get my firefox and thunderbird profile off it so I don’t feel so bereft….
*sigh*
And poor child…now worrying about lost linkage…
Oh well…it’ll work out eventually.
She’s now at chennette.net.
