We're experiencing temporary technological difficulties

 Good morning, my dears, I hope that your Friday morning is off to a fantastic start. This post, which I'm writing mere minutes before it goes live, can largely be summed up its title. You will note that I intentionally said "technological difficulties", instead of the more commonly used "technical difficulties". The reason for that is because it is indeed technology that's been causing me some trouble as of late.

You see my laptop, my beloved, trusty workhorse of a laptop, which I've had some 4.5 years now, has finally come to the end of its life. It has a number of issues that are all compounding its demise, but the most problematic is one with its power cord socket (where the cord plugs in), an issue that is notorious amongst Sony Vaios, of which it is one. Over the years (the last two years, to be exact), we've bought many new cords for it, but even that no longer does the trick, and coupled with some other issues (such a the fact that its operating speed has become slower than molasses being poured at the North Pole), it's hard to get it to turn on any more, let alone hold any kind of battery charge.

For nearly all of the past two days, I couldn't get it to do either, but have finally been able to once again today, and so I'm feverishly writing this post while I still can!

Last night, after a few days of carefully weighing numerous potential new replacement options in our price range, Tony and I decided that a Lenovo laptop would be a great fit for my needs, and so we ordered one online.

According to the website, it may take up to 15 business (not calendar) days to ship, plus the actual shipping time itself, so when all is said and done, that could be as long as a month from now. That's a worst case scenario though, and I'm hoping that it will in fact be more like ten to fifteen days (but only time will tell).

It's entirely possibly that before the new Lenovo arrives, this one will go to the great computer room in the sky however, and if it does, my online presence may drop down to just what I'm able to do from my phone.

I have numerous posts written and slated to go live already for much of the rest of the month, and have opted to leave those up for now, and as always, will try to reply to comments, visit your wonderful blogs, spend time on social media sites and the like, as best I can with a current laptop that may really and truly sing its last tune at any given moment.



{We've come a long way from the days of most computers filling whole rooms as they did back in the 1950s when this photograph was taken at Vassar. I can't help but relate though to the woman's somewhat defeated/exasperated expression here, as it's not too far off from the ones I've been flashing while contenting with a laptop on its very last legs this week. Image source.}

 
Soon enough though, my new computer will here and after a brief "getting to you" period with it, all should be as right as rain once more. Huzzah! :)

Still, as I've already been online less lately because of this situation, and may likely be in the coming days, I just wanted to give you all a head's up and let you know why such may continue to be the case until my new computer arrives (dealing with a nearly dead laptop has also postponed my ability to get my Halloween costume post up this week, as I'd initially planned, but rest assured that, even if it's towards the end of the month, it will appear here asap!).

Aside from that, most things have been well so far during the first week of November. We made it to antiques & collectibles show on November 1st (that I mentioned here) and had a total blast - with, naturally, a bit of shopping to be had. The first snowfall graced our ground on Monday (though it didn't stick around long), and here, as with most everywhere, the stores are all gearing up big time for Christmas already, just as my own thoughts are thinking ever more to the approaching holiday season.

My new laptop is my present (and then some) this year, and what a tremendously awesome gift it will be! Just think of all the blog posts, for starters, that will be written on it in the months and years to come!

Have a beautiful, fun filled Friday and weekend, everyone!