Random Tuesday Thoughts

1. As you may know, my laptop's keyboard has seen better days. It had gotten to such a state that I was missing 3 keys and one wasn't on there right. I really hate laptop keyboards! The keys are extremely difficult to put back on and doing so is an exercise in patience. Friday night I decided to look up what could be done about my poor laptop and after doing some research, I decided to check out Ebay and see if I could find a new one. I found one where I could buy it right then and it was priced really well - $18 including tax and it had free shipping. So, I was sold.

When I got home from my class today, my husband had a surprise for me. He had installed the new keyboard (I was all prepared to spend some time doing this at some point this week). He figured he would surprise me since I was not here when it came. What a sweet husband I have. One less thing I have to do.

2. It is going to be a very busy evening. I got home a little after 3 from my class. Now we are all just getting around because I have an appointment at the library at 5 and at 5:15 baseball practice starts. I am going to be dropping hubby and the kids off a little before 5 and then running over to the library. Thank goodness it ended up being a decent day. In all likelihood we will be grabbing something at a fast food place after practice, as much as I don't want to.

3. My husband got a free week pass for a new local gym that's open twenty four hours a day (you use a card to get in). Well now he really wants a membership. Of course, he is on unemployment, so that isn't going to happen. I told him we could get rid of the extra cable (this would save us $40 a month) and then we could afford a gym membership. He wasn't too keen on that idea because then he would be missing his precious Mets!! lol. I would love to go to the gym too (believe me, I need to lose about 60 pounds) but I think I would rather pay the bills!!

4. I hate IE6 (internet explorer 6)! It doesn't like my signature because it doesn't like pngs. So all you out there need to upgrade to at least 7 or, better yet, use Firefox. just kidding. lol. But 7 does support these other graphic files, so it is better. I will be changing it to a jpg with the pages background behind it so those with IE6 will now be able to see it correctly.

I have a test in my Business Statistics class on Thursday, and this is some hard stuff. Let me tell ya. So, between now and then I will probably not be posting much. So I will wish you all a great Earth Day, one day in advance.

Beautiful weather and my crappy laptop!

Yesterday was a beautiful day here in upstate NY. 70 degrees, sun was shining. Beautiful!! We had the kids outside most of the afternoon and evening, until we went to the store. We went to to Tops and did REALLY well on sales.

Today is supposed to be just as nice. Dh will be gone for a while - he's at the mall taking the defensive driving course. This will save us some money on insurance. When he gets home we will be walking to Family Dollar to look at cell phone chargers for the car. They have LG ones that I think will fit our Net10 phones for $6. They come with 3 different tips so we will only have to buy one if it works with both phones.

Speaking of spending more money..... grrrrrr... I ordered a new keyboard for my laptop yesterday. My keyboard is just beyond repair. My pgDn button doesn't sit there right. Those little white pieces that go under the buttons are just a big pain in the butt. I'm missing one for down key and the one for my space bar broke. I found a new keyboard on Ebay for around $18 including tax (some other places wanted close to $30) and now I just have to wait to get it. Then the fun part will be trying to put it in, but at least I have a manual for that so I should be able to do it.

I've had this laptop a little over a year and it's a piece of crap. My husband bought a refurbished Gateway and it's awesome (it's what I am using right now because of my keyboard). Maybe it's because of all the stuff I added to mine. I don't know. I've tried to restore it several times and it never works. So, this summer, after my classes are done, my big project will be to get all the pictures on CD and copy everything. Then I will be restoring it back to factory standards. Putting it all back in will be a chore also. Then, hopefully, the laptop will work and run better (the thing is just so slow right now). Maybe then I will be able to put off getting a new laptop for several years!