it had to happen. i've had my laptop for over three years now, rolling along smoothly without much effort on my part. i don't really ever do much with it as far as maintenance or file cleaning or even deleting my emails. so...yeah. it had to happen.

last week i lost my work email and the whole machine was dogging. i took it to the computer shop for THREE DAYS (it felt like losing a limb) and got it back on friday. brought it home, and the problem was not fixed. still no access to work email, and the little dinger told me i had 12 new messages waiting out there in cyberspace.

so today i'm back to square one. i've told most everyone i can think of to mail me at my personal address--thank goodness that is still up and running. but those TWELVE nagging emails out there are driving me nuts. what do they say? are they important? is one of them about a really cool job that i'm now missing out on?

i guess i may never know. i'm going to call the computer shop this morning and talk to the man who supposedly fixed the problem. i may end up having to take the machine back in again, so if you don't hear from me for awhile, cross your fingers.

and happy fourth of july :)