May. 10, 2008 at 12:38am

Kinda' like a death in the family.

(or, how I got a really expensive Skype phone.)

The laptop, my macbook pro my Sweetie purchased for me after I'd earned my BA degree, the most expensive and best surprise gift I've ever received, the item that represented my turning into a for real, credible, career-like adult, is desperately ill.

In my mind I hear two things when I look at it: I hear the line from the Princess Bride ("he's only mostly dead") and the Munchkin song from the Wizard of Oz ("she's absolutely reeeeeally dead!")

Pretty much, I can use a couple of functions on it, so long as they don't require typing or dialog boxes (that require typing).  The display is clear and bright and happy, my kid's face smiling at me. Info is on the machine, pictures, stories, my life in files, I have a new external hard drive, and I won't lose anything.  I can still Skype on it, for to Skype is not to type.

And yet, it's all breaking my heart.  $1200 to fix it is too much.

ayeee, I feel like I'm putting a pet to sleep.  I loved that machine.

Oh well.