I’m so annoyed. SO. ANNOYED. The new year has been a drip of irritating things (to be fair, it started at the end of last year), and it’s continuing. The first tihng was my internet acting up (saying I was using a TERABYTE of data in one month after years of using 10 GB a month). My brother helped me figure out some of the problem, but not all of it. And, of course, Comcast/Xfinity was worse than useless because they don’t have to be helpful. What am I going to do? Switch to CenturyLink which is nearly as bad? (And which is causing me a current problem?)
Then, this year, I got a flat tire a week-and-a-half ago. I had to get four new tires. The last Saturady, my phone conked out. No idea why. And I could not get a real actual human being to talk to at CenturyLink. I managed to get an appointment for Thursday (tomorrow), if you can call it that. It’s any time from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Now, today, I wanted to get my meds. I went to the garage and tried to start my car. It would not start. I called my brother (because that’s what I do). It’s probably the 12-volt battery. Or it might be the cold that makes the battery not work. I remember replacing the battery during the pandemic, probably early on. So it’s been nearly four years, which my brother says is the norm for 12-volt batters in Minnesota.
Oh, and my laptop is dying. I bought it in April of 2019 so that’s not a surprise. In fact, I’ve been nursing it along for the last six months or so. It’s not a surprise, but it is definitely on its last legs now. Like, I won’t be able to use it in a month or so. I have two choices. My brother’s old laptop is still usable. He buys top quality and top-notch professional laptops that last for a decade or so. His last two laptops before this one are still in use. And the one before that still works. He’s put four years into the one I might buy, which means it has at least two to three more good years in it (if not more). It has 2 Terabytes of memory (and I cannot have less than 1 Terabyte), an SSD, and all the other bells and whistles I need. The one thing that makes me pause is that the graphics card is a 1050. That’s not very good. My current desktop is a 3070. This laptop is a 1050. But I’m not going to use it for gaming. Just watching videos and writing. And surfing the net. I don’t need a good graphics card for that.