So I've dug out an old laptop

... and I do mean OLD! It's running Windows XP, that is how old it is! (of the three laptops I've ever owned, this one is number two).

It is so slow that it's not even funny. It also seems to dislike DragCave, which is very bad news... it does stuff there, but soooo ssslllooowwwlllyyy. Even writing this here it keeps freezing and saying that it's not responding, then all of the words I've typed all appear at once... most weird (but typical).

The shop have been on to Mum about her laptop, and as they don't actually deal with the brand of machine she has and they are going to have to send it back to the makers (after they get the parts sent to them and then send it all on to them...don't ask!) they have told her that it could take 6-8 WEEKS!!!

That makes it sometime in late October/early November before she'll get it back... she's not a happy bunny, but there is nothing that she can do about it.

The amount of time it's taken to write this I think I could have written a note, attached it to the leg of a carrier pigeon and sent it off flying to Blogger HQ and let someone there type it out for me! Just when I think things are going well it suddenly freezes and I'm sat there staring at the bloody annoying little hourglass, spinning end over end telling me that the computer is not doing what I want it to! ARGH!

Anyway... at least I have some means of getting online that doesn't involve disturbing Mum when she's doing her stuff... it may be slow and frustrating, but at least I can still talk to my friends and (incredibly slowly) deal with my dragons.

I do wish that the spacebar was more friendly, though... it takes a lot of pressure to get it to actually do its job, lol!

Anyway...

Explaining my possible absence

So Mum is having to send her laptop away for repairs... which means that I'm going to have to let Mum use my laptop as she does vastly more online than I do (talking to peeps on MSN and playing Farmville and stuff like that... my time online is usually limited to posting in forums and playing DragCave).

They are coming to collect it between 1-7pm today (!) and it could be gone for 3-10 days (depending on the problem... we are hoping it's just the fan as it's making a nasty whirring noise, so hopefully it should be a fairly easy fix... LOLOLOL!!)

Mum is quite upset at it going, but it should come back better than it is now, so it's all good.

It means that my online time is going to be severely limited so if I'm not around, now you know why (plus my arm is killing me, so it may do me some good).

Talk soon, take care, and be good until I get back (and if you can't be good, be careful, hehe).