Booting up my old Toshiba laptop on Friday with a view to blog resulted in the machine being shut down all too quickly. The grinding of the fan trying to move with many groans and squeals that made it sound like the hard drive was trying to rip itself out of it's shell quickly informed me that all was not well.

I think that the laptop may be on its way out. In fact, I'm pretty sure of it. It's not so much the howling noises that this machine emits but rather the automatic shutdowns and fatal errors that are pointing me in the rebuild direction. Taking it all apart and giving it all a good hoover didn't really help last night so now I am consigned to using Girlpants PC for access to the digital highway, which is a chore unto itself as it took over an hour to give his laptop access to edit this site. However the threat of going once more into the internet desert has already filled me with dread, so with the aim of keeping the laptop on it's feet mean only using it sporadically until it can be sent to the laptop doctor (Girlpants) and even worse, may mean that he won't be able to look at it for some time as we've just discovered that the roof is leaking. It's only Sunday and I'm already getting that feeling that it just may be a very long week.