The prodigal laptop has returned.
It’s been on a six-day retreat in Houston, getting its hinges fixed. Several weeks ago, one of them popped and bad things ensued. Bits and pieces in the back loosened and bent, and the monitor started to come apart at the seams. I was afraid it was going to spit little internal organs all over the carpet.
M. K. Waller 
What a nightmare to have your computer fall apart that way. Horrors! If you were able to continue working on your desktop computer, it sounds like you are wise enough to have your work backed up. Bravo! So glad to hear you are back up and running with the laptop, and what a nice surprise that it returned early. May your words now flow like silken ribbons from your fingertips as you return to your comfortable seat.
The LCD bezel is the frame around the screen that holds it in place. Isn’t that glamorous?
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Sharon, I’m afraid I’m not all that wise. I don’t back up nearly often enough. Funny thing, though–the laptop worked perfectly throughout. I had to be careful about keeping the monitor raised at a just-so angle, but I was able to put everything on a flash drive. And then to back up to a DVD. And then to e-mail a bunch of files to myself. More paranoia than wisdom.
Thanks for the bezel definition. That’s that part that broke. When I searched for photographs of bezels, I got more than a half-dozen pix of M.I.T. class rings with engravings of beavers. It crossed my mind that a bezel might be a particular kind of beaver, but nothing like that came back with the computer.
Thank you for the sentiments about silken ribbons. It’s a lovely image ~ I’ll keep it close.
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Kathy, LOVED the “hit the undo button thirty or forty times! Oh boy, you and I are a whole lot alike! If the first time doesn’t work–do it fifty times–then one more–the fifty first is bound to undo!!
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I clicked and clicked and clicked. I still can’t understand why the text didn’t reappear. I can’t understand why it disappeared in the first place. Mine not to reason why, I guess.
But what’s the harm of clicking, right? We have to do SOMETHING.
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Glad to hear the prodigal is home. I would miss my laptop so much if it were gone. I do so much more work on it. Sometimes I think it’s a reaction to so many years spent at a desk on a PC at work. It was the last place I wanted to be at night.
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Thanks, Susan. For years, I had no desire to use a computer after work. Didn’t even have Internet access at home until I moved to Austin. But the laptop is sort of like a well-behaved cat. It sits on my lap and purrs and doesn’t shed or wake me up at night just to chat.
I hope you’re feeling much better.
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That’s a great picture of the Siluro River!
I bet it’s got lots of catfish in it.
I’m chomping at the bit, so to speak, to hear about Molly and the picketer.
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Thank you. I’m chomping, too. I have no idea what they’re going to say and do. Guess I’ll have to trust them to figure it out.
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Hello Kathy, lovely post. Your laptop refurbishers are clearly geniuses. There is nothing more wonderful than new lamps for old, and that is just what you appear to have.
I’ve missed your style while the laptop has been away. And I do hope we get an update on Mrs Hinderleitner and how she proposes to save the river. Has Molly diverted it for her own purposes?
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Thank you. I’ve missed writing. Everything I wrote on the desktop went wrong. I’m so glad I didn’t click Publish. The good news is that I read a book while sitting without a computer on my lap. I’ve gone from reading compulsively to writing compulsively, and it’s time to find a balance.
There will be an update on Mrs. Hinderleitner, I hope. Her name may be changed by that time, though. I slapped Hinderleitner on her without much thought. Molly hasn’t done anything to the river, and she finds all the attention irksome. Miss Pinksie has already been on her case about it.
I’d never realized my dog looked like Neville Chamberlain, but he really did. Thank you for pointing that out. He was big on appeasement, especially when he saw a can of Danish butter cookies.
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So sorry about your laptop. I love mine, especially since I got a cordless keyboard. I never have gotten used to typing on the laptop itself. The keys seem so close together.
Glad yours is back and in even better shape.
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Thanks, Helen. I had trouble getting used to the touchpad; then, when I switched to wireless mouse, I had to get used to that again. It’s a state of constant change, but I prefer that to going back to the typewriter.
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