Computer Snob

So I got back from vacation a week ago and when I was ready to blog about it I fired up my laptop.  To find this flashing screen with "Smart hard drive failure imminent" on it.  Wth?  If it's so Smart why did it fail huh??  It worked fine on vaca.  (I had promised the fam I wouldn't blog on vaca just check important stuff...yeah right)  Did it drop out of the back of my car for our last gas/bathroom stop on the way home???   Hmmmm, no I got the gas and it couldn't have been my fault. (right?)  I would blame Hubby but he flew home a few days earlier for "work".  Whatever.  I know he would do anything to get out of the hellish ride back where nothing is packed right and every time a door opens fries and soda cans fall out and we are all tired and bitchy and look like the Clampetts. 

Back to my issue.   Imminent????   That means soon right??   Not in my case.  It meant right effing then.    Have I backed everything up like a good girl.  Of course not, I've been meaning too......I am in panic mode.   I have pics to download, stuff to discuss, FB posts to mock.   C'mon!!!   Nooooooooooooo.
After a lengthy conversation with an HP rep I'm guessing was in India because I couldn't understand half of what she was saying.   But she was super nice so.   She actually bargained with me on the price of a new hard drive.  Seriously.  Had no idea you could do that.   Works for me.    So in the meantime I'm moping and wailing  on about no Internet when my darling husband after day 3 gets snarky and says what's wrong with using your phone, the big computer, the tablet, or one of the boys computers,netbooks or laptops.........

I'll tell you why.   For those who know me I'm kinda girly.  My laptop has shiny white buttons and flowers on the cover.   My desk has a girly lamp and scented candles.  Add that with my morning coffee or a evening glass of wine (or vice versa however my day is going)  and I am a blogging, internet loving fool. All my favorites are bookmarked. All of our bill sites and passwords are stored on it. (I'd better figure that one out before anything gets shut off huh?)  I can't type anything but  the basic texting on my phone and I can't use the tablet because I can't type without a real keyboard.  The boys are stingy with theirs and I would have to block their games and friend's im-ing and I would also get distracted snooping and being a good parent by being nosy.  (I already do that while they are at school anyway) 

So that leaves me sitting here in front of the "big" computer.  You know, every family has one. The dinosaur.  The one tied in with the printer with school supplies scattered and my husband scribbled work notes.  The bad chair that gives me a crick in the neck when I try and type for 5 minutes. The one that is slower than dial up......

I admit it.  Reading over this I have turned into a computer snob.  And I'm not sorry...... So until Wednesday (that's what Miss India says) when I get my new hard drive (which I was assured I could install myself, who are they kidding??) I will try to keep my computer griping down to 2 per blog.      Maybe 3.....