October is here, the month culminating in All Hallows' Eve or Halloween and I will be missing all those scary movies on various favorite cable channels (AMC, SciFy Channel, etc.) along with the new season of The Walking Dead, still owing my former cable provider $40 past due and unable to afford getting reconnected with that service or the internet. Also having no working computer the latter service is of no use to me. One suggestion I recently received was to purchase a cheaper unit than any current laptop, such as a Netbook, or some similar device. I will be looking into some bargain basement computer aid for the remaining year, hoping I might plug in the out-of-service laptop's removed hard drive to that new unit and bridge the damaged Windows 7 startup program on that piece of Hitachi HDD crap with the new machine's capabilities. I'm chomping at the bit being unable to write on any electronic device currently, projects unfinished and trapped on the damaged hard drive unreachable in my current dilemma. If it turns out the hard drive's damage included any precious Word files of my work not backed up elsewhere, a tremendous howl of great frustration, oaths of vengeance toward modern technology failing me and other blood-curdling events may ensue.
Technology always gets cheaper over time, just not cheap enough yet to solve my dilemma. Each computer I've bought over the past 22 years was cheaper than its predecessor, same for VCRs purchased by me or my loved ones during the years 1984 - 2006. If I can get one of those punier computers smaller than the laptop and am able to retrieve or work on my files, I just hope the new keyboard isn't so small my fingers fumble over it more than usual.
Technology always gets cheaper over time, just not cheap enough yet to solve my dilemma. Each computer I've bought over the past 22 years was cheaper than its predecessor, same for VCRs purchased by me or my loved ones during the years 1984 - 2006. If I can get one of those punier computers smaller than the laptop and am able to retrieve or work on my files, I just hope the new keyboard isn't so small my fingers fumble over it more than usual.