THANK YOU FOR PRAYING

Of course, just as I redoubled my efforts to update this site more than once-weekly, my computer goes kaput. Oh, the computing part of my 2-year-old iBook is just fine. It's the display that's the issue, and by "issue," I mean totally gone haywire.

Just like with my last computer, I'm pretty sure it's a hardware issue: on Saturday evening, I wiped down my laptop screen with a wet nap, headed downtown to finally catch a showing of Thank You For Smoking (which more than met my already inflated expectations), and upon return found my screen gone a bright gray with the stray colored perpendicular lines. I'd seen this before, and I pretty much instantly knew that the machine was toast.

Well, this one lasted me twice as long as my last one, and I had strongly considered upgrading to a MacBook Pro. And in the end, the wet nap decided for me. Now, don't get me wrong — I've got my iBook with me at work, and I am going to take it into the Apple store. Mostly just to argue that cleaning my computer in a reasonable fashion should not result in a $1000 repair charge (because my father persuaded me that warranty extensions are always a bad idea, I do not have Apple Care). Argue futilely, of course. And then order a MacBook.

So, blogging may well be light over the next week as I wait for a) approval of my bank loan, b) the computer itself to be shipped from Taiwan.

In the meantime, as I continue on this multi-post religion-tweaking jag, consider this map, which I found on one of the Internets:


See that? I come from one of the least religious states in the union! And the state where I work now sure is a lot less religious than you'd think.

I may spend eternity in a lake of fire for my well-meaning, open-minded agnosticism, but at least I'll have plenty of my fellow Oregonians and Virginians (!) there with me.

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posted by WWB at 3:41 PM |