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Well today brough quite an unexpected expense on my part. To explain, I live and breath based on my laptop and my Treo phone. I live by e-mail and do websites, etc. etc. It's not easy for me to be without my computer. Well, I've been having some trouble with my laptop in the last week. The monitor was flickering on and off every so often. I thought nothing of it -just a lose wire.

Well, today I woke up and the laptop would only boot to a command prompt. And, I'm on a Mac so that's really weird. For those of you non-techies -- a command prompt is basicaly a black screen that's no good!!!

Ao, I took the laptop on over to the Apple store to see what's going on. Well bottom line - it was going to cost me around $800 for a 50/50 chance the laptop would work again.

So, here I sit with a new laptop that I certainly had no plans on purchasing. Thank God for credit cards - however, no thanks for the interest rates that come with them.

I also lost ALL of my data, so I am doing what I can to piece my life back together. I do backup - but certainly not enough.

Yes, this laptop is a slight upgrade from the previous one, but I'd have much rather stayed with the older one and not have the bill that's attached to this new one.

Anyway, I guess it's just live - que sera sera.

Quick recap...
life has been crazy the last few weeks-
didn't make it to the PMEA conference as I had hoped
Having rehearsals for the cruise we're taking the band on in just over a week
trying to catch up and get ahead - since I'll be missing a week here due to the cruise

The week ahead...
getting as far ahead in the office as possible since I'll be on a cruise for a week
dog-sitting Lorry's dog Xu-Xu for a few days
Packing in there somewhere
Leaving for the cruise on Easter Sunday afternoon.

The cruise should be an interesting experience. Performances by the band in the Bahamas and at Kennedy Space Center. I've never been on a cruise so this will be a whole new world for me. And to top it off - they have limited internet access there!!!!!!!

So, I'll have e-mail - but who knows how often - yikes!!!!!!!

Anyway, if you want to contribute to my new laptop fund - let me know - hahaha