Services Begin Saturday

Massage on Saturday, facial, and hair color on Monday. And maybe a burial service for my laptop.

My new phone might be at the office, shiny and new. I'd go there but the cloud server is down. I know, that's not supposed to happen but it did so my choices are: 1) work from home, or 2) goof off.

In either case, more coffee was required.

I decided to copy my photos off my old phone in anticipation of getting a new one but my desktop computer wasn't interested in talking to my phone. Wouldn't even say hello. So I plugged the phone into my laptop - which was really marketed as a netbook - an Acer Aspire One. Not only would it talk to my phone, it also networks with my desktop. Through the science of magic, I transferred my photos from my phone to my desktop via my lowly little netbook. Believe me when I say, I have no idea how this all works.

But then Windows 8.1 totally screwed me over. My netbook froze after transferring eleven of the 876 items off my phone. Just stopped in its tracks - screen frozen, keyboard frozen. Nothing worked except OFF.

I get it. The Acer is a cheap computer. I used to think cheap as in inexpensive but now I'm thinking cheap as in slutty. It used to freeze up with such an annoying frequency that it nearly met its demise before Windows 8 came along. I took it to computer doctors and nothing worked. But after I upgraded to Windows 8, it worked perfectly. It was a little slow maybe - streaming video was a little jerky and working in multiple windows could be a drag - but it never froze again.

Until I "upgraded" to Windows 8.1. (My netbook gets around.) And the now it freezes up randomly again. If only I could turn back the hands of time but Microsoft has no sympathy for my situation. I'm stuck with it - just when I was resigned to live with it at least another year.

And so, I'm back to considering what shiny new thing would solve all the world's problems. For the money, I could get an MacBook Air and have a reasonable expectation that it would work exactly as advertised or I could get another netbook and have enough money left over for a bitchin' coffee maker and a year's supply of coffee.

Maybe I should have a steam bath and just think about it.