Yesterday while half way browsing the laptop died on me,its brand new(6 months)(will you say 6 month old on as outdated?) and from Compaq.Some bizarre sound and a blue screen popped up and asked me to shutdown.I switched off the power and switched on again,it clearly showed me “disk read error”.
Believed nothing would be serious,i tried it again in other 1 hr,this time boot setup failure then i smelt its termination.
With a heavy heart I called up DD and confessed,(Thank god,he did not barked),he was not much bothered except for the data,since it’s under warranty.
Then i got back to my work and finished it all,while ambuli was still sleeping,i had plenty of time left.
God,I was spending most of my time blogging and blog hopping and in google reader,and claiming I have no time left.I have been addicted to blogging and on the bigger scale its internet.
It’s not that i have not used internet before but now my addiction suffers a good increase,before I have read some food blogs which I follow and some magazines and will be backto my work,but now these blogs are taking up all y time.
I had also been glued to this one when ambuli is up and running,and now i have made a promise to myself that,never be in front of laptop when the toddler is eating up the house.
And today am successful with that,hope i will kept it for ever and spend those saved time for my sweet lil one.
Trivia: I have an other alibaba laptop which can be called as Desktop to be precise(hooked on to power always,else sleeps),so working from that today.DD had taken that laptop to service center and there is no way that they could take a backup of data available,(he did not cursed me afterall) it has most of his data and few recent pics of ambuli.Normally he takes a backup every month but this month he missed and i have killed it and I have found my time to do things.A blessing in disguise.
March 23, 2010 at 9:32 am
Oh dear! When I lost the laptop too, all I ws worried abt or atleast more ws abt the pics n other data. Well as they say, time is the best healer 🙂 Hope it starts working soon. Compaq one behaving that way in 6 mths is just too much!
LOL @ Alibaba PC 😉
March 23, 2010 at 1:27 pm
Am definitely worried abt data n pics,ohh u say time is the best healer,am already feeling better:D.two days not enough time?
DD claims the way i handled the notebook PC as rough notebook,for this kinda behavior.
March 23, 2010 at 4:06 pm
no laptop has become like no right hand for us these days… its good to know that you found your precious time.. I have got the habit of browsing thru’ my list of favi blogs now and then at workplace… shd learn to come out of it soon… 🙂
March 23, 2010 at 7:07 pm
I feel its ok in a work place.after all you need some break.
March 24, 2010 at 12:09 pm
Im thinking about internet weaning myself too.. Im a certified blog addict (includes blog hopping as well). But I console myself saying blogging gave me such good friends whom I wouldn’t have found otherwise. I really have to pull up my socks on this one..
March 24, 2010 at 12:47 pm
Very true.
I find limiting is good on me.
March 25, 2010 at 1:35 am
On the blog addiction, try this!
http://www.lazygeek.net/2010/02/log-logout
March 25, 2010 at 8:35 am
Keep being addicted amma. So that ambuli has more time to do the ten things you listed in the next post 🙂 And so that you can write about it. And so that we can enjoy it immensely.
March 25, 2010 at 12:30 pm
Bhaskar: Read that,and i feel its good to be on physical books,as you say always,but here i cud not get my hands on books that frequently,except for ambuli’s pre school essentials.
@ ramesh: no you are wrong,not ten,its eleven,you missed enjoying eleventh or something inbetween.