Of Dell
The lack of posts over the last few weeks is due to major malfunctions
of my four-year-old laptop. Actually, it is not four years old. Four
years ago, my father generously bought me a laptop to aid in my
studies at grad school. This laptop has been replaced by Dell three or
four times over the years. I have spent countless hours on the phone
with non-American, non-English-speaking men who are able to read an
algorithm (althoug in broken, impossible-to-understand English only),
but may not be able to think for themselves attempting to get various
laptops in working condition. Usually, after enduring a period of
trials and tribulations, the computer has been fixed. Not this time.
The Dell laptop is now very much dead. It takes over an hour to turn
on, and then flashes warnings like, "File ://!XYZ has been erased.
This may indicate a problem with your hard drive." before showing me a
beautiful blue screen which reads, "Dumping physical memory." In my
very limited experience, when your computer suggests that hard drive
problems may exist, it is usually correct.
Now that I am married, my husband has generously bought me a new
laptop. (Because that is what good husbands do for their
internet-dependent wives.) Eric may have just been sick of getting
phone calls like, "Ok, look this up for me. How many cups of dry
long-grain brown rice do I need to get three cups of cooked
rice?..........I mean, are you busy there at work?"
My new computer is on the way. I sincerely hope it is more reliable
than my Dell has been.
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