Cue the Death March Music...

R.I.P poor computer...your end came WAY too soon...but just AFTER the warranty ran out I see! Unfortunately the "take-it-apart-put-it-back-together" master surgeon failed this time...I guess the laptop was just beyond even his magic!

Sadly, our laptop did not believe in resurrection...even after it's lifesaving part was transplanted...the damage was just too great! We thought we might have been able to revive it when the power flashed on and it started to boot up, but the matrix-looking screen of symbols and numbers--plus the louds sirens gave us the firm belief that it was not working!

So...if you have to have a computer die, I guess right as the Black Friday sales come out is a good time to have it happen! A new computer has been ordered and should be here sometime this week!! (Much to the happy yelling and screaming of the two younger hoodlums who are forced to share a computer for school until it arrives--oh wait--the yelling and screaming is BECAUSE THEY ARE FORCED to share the computer for school until it arrives--that's right--they don't know how to share because they are teenagers *grin*) I will be a MUCH happier mom when it gets here! (At least until the next thing breaks!)

Should I Worry?

Steven has this uncanny ability to take a broken something apart and when he puts it back together...it works! It has been a great help many times...a fixed toy or fan...but this time he may have met his match! Last week his laptop quit working!!! We need it for homeschool--well, I guess NEED is not the word--it makes homeschool MUCH easier having 3 computers. One for each kid and then the desktop for me to use makes a MUCH happier mom!

Anyways...he decided to take it apart and look at it. I was over working at my desk with my back to him...when I turned around...THIS is what I found:

Now...being the good wife...I should have complete confidence right? I have never seen so many parts and screws in one place...it's a giant jigsaw without the picture to go by! I have to admit...I am a little nervous about whether it will work when the part gets here this week...and maybe even a little more nervous if he can even get it back together the way it started! We'll have to see...maybe it will go together easy...or maybe it will have parts left over {grin} More news to follow on the saga of the broken computer!

PS...I know I have been totally remiss in writing about the antics of the Zoo Crew...I will try to be better! We are just having so much MAKING the memories lately, there is not much time to WRITE about them!