Nov. 12th

My poor laptop. I love it so much. It was a gift from my parents. It was waiting for me on the family dining table the moment I came home from my mission to Chile. It served me well through the last two years of college. So much artwork was lovingly crafted on it. Grade A papers were written on it. It suffered a hard drive failure soon after moving to Ellensburg, but with a new hardrive and Windows 7 it was back to being as good as new. But now... well the display has developed terminal problems. It looks like I may not be able to fix it myself this time, like I did with the hardrive. I may actually have to take it to a computer fix-up shop. I have no idea what the cost will be, and whether or not we'll be able to afford it, and I don't like the idea of leaving my dear laptop in the hands of strangers... Ah, how sad. Its really too bad that technology has a way of becoming old so quickly. I guess my laptop, though its only about three and a half years old, is feeling its age. Right now I'm using the computer in the lab to write this post. This computer is old, but it works all right. Its main flaw: whenever I try to use facebook it freezes. I miss facebook :P. Oh well, at least Braden still has his computer. It overheats sometimes, and it freezes quite a bit, but it still works. Anywho, not much else is new. This week has been pretty boring. I caught a cold so I haven't been out much. Its starting to go away, and just in time too, cause today Braden and I are going on a field trip with some other International students to Unnan City, to see their old fashioned Iron Forge. We will also see how tofu used to be made and eat a fresh tofu lunch. I'm really looking forward to it, and will be sure to post pictures on facebook when we get back. Its an overnight trip, so I won't be able to post anything about it till tomorrow night or Sunday. Till then!