R.I.P. Lappy

Lappy the laptop has officially "bit the dust". It's time of death was about 7:32PM Sunday December 16th. I think I killed it. I was pressuring it to copy all my pictures on CDs and I was pretty relentless about it. Since each time I started it up the screen said "Back-up all files immediately. There is a hard drive failure. Replace hard drive. A crash is imminent." I decided it would be wise to follow directions and back it up. Hence, Lappy was working hard (but not very well) to copy a big set of pictures at it's time of death. I know I should have been nicer and let Lappy go out peacefully, but what can I say I'm ruthless. So Lappy's done...when I try to caress it back to life it simply puts up an angry black screen that says "Error in operational system..." Sigh. The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away. I'm okay with it, but I am a bit sad that I hadn't copied any of my Romania pictures yet and that means they are all lost in a world of darkness somewhere amongst the broken failure that is my hard drive. Perhaps there is still hope, so I will hang on to Lappy's corpse until official declaration of death by someone more worthy than I. Until then, I will trek to the House on the Rock and climb up the big 2 flights of stairs it takes to reach a computer that will allow me contact with the outside world, not only because it's good for you to know what's up on this side of the world, but also because I love to write now. And once Lappy quit I realized the one thing that can't be taken away because of that is this, my blog. And so I write with joy, knowing that my words, this memoir of my experiences, is the best I have and I'm so happy to have it. =]