I just found out that I need to buy a new computer. My six-year old laptop is finally starting to go senile on me. I've been having a lot of problems with it for the last few months and now the keyboard needs replacing. Apparently, my F1 key is stuck depressed and it continually keeps opening up Windows help and support pages and not letting me close them. It uses up all of my CPU to run these things and so I can't do anything else on it. I'm somewhat mad because I called a computer support company and they at first thought that it was a virus. They recommended that I wipe the entire system clean to get rid of it. So, I lost all of my stuff because I was dumb and only had a small amount actually backed up and the computer did work for a little while. Then, about two days ago, it started doing the same thing again and when I called the company a second time they figured that it was the keyboard. I decided that I might as well just replace the whole computer and get something a little more up to date. The only thing is, the new laptop will cost (after tax, shipping and handling, and warranty costs) almost $1600! It definately hurts (that's two months of rent). At least a large chunk of it will be covered by my tax return. Anyway, I'm at the library typing this because I won't have a computer or internet until mid-next week at the earliest. I'm already going into withdrawals. Luckily, I will be going on a four day fishing trip either tomorrow or Saturday and therefore I won't have to worry about missing the computer. It's going to be a trying time.

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