What a day!

OMG... yes WHAT A DAY is the best way to explain it... it actually started last night... I finally got my computer to charge the battery (too much to get into here... just say that's been going on for some time!) so I laid down to read while it charged... woke up at 6:30 this morning to a blank screen and no blinking lights... oh crap! (not what I actually said...) yup... during the night something shifted and the battery stopped charging and it re-drained the battery... so after about two hours trying to get it started it did... long enough to boot up... then shut down again... now I'm getting real mad! So I started to look things over... and found the female receptacle (where you plug the power pack into was broken and in no shape to be fixed... So now what... well when I bought my Dell I applied for and got a $1500.00 loc... but that was in 2003... 5 years later I find that that account was closed for inactivity... so online I go (on moms computer) at start browsing with Dell... got on the phone and reapplied and was granted a $3000.00 loc... so I bought me a new XPS M1730 - 2 gig Ram, 160 gig HD, NVidia Geforce 8700MGT video, dual processor, Lo-Jack, 4 year warranty, 17" widescreen, CD/DVD +/- RW, Wireless Internet, bluetooth and a $70.00 Gift card to be used before 12-30-08... Whew! and all for only $2700.00!!! looks like travel will be nill to none until that is paid off!!! But I can't complain the old Dell served me well... OH! and did you ask if I lost anything???? well in fact no I didn't... I also purchased a Daisy cable... what is that you ask? when I get it all I have to do is remove my HD from the old Dell, insert it into this little box put the cover on and plug the other end into a USB port and boom there ya go... instant external drive... I will then be able to access everything on the drive!!! TOTALLY AMAZING!!! I will be able to move all my "stuff" over... Whew!