Planned Obsolesence Gone Mad
Sorry -- this is truly just a random rant.
In the past seven days, we've had failures of
- Our sewer main--it was cleaned out just a year ago, and it backed up again last Thursday
- My laptop died a horrible death on Monday, leading me to purchase a new one. This Toshiba was just over two years old -- I have two others that are 7 and 10 years, respectively, and another one that is so old it is running Windows 95 on it
- Today we found out that our 2001-model car with fewer than 100 kilomiles on it probably needs a new engine (!)
- The sewer cleaner came twice, on Friday and on Saturday night (after an encore perfomance of "sludge on the basement floor" Saturday afternoon), quickly, and the problem seems to have abated some.
- Migrating to a new laptop -- I finally just turned on the thing today -- was easy thanks to a daily backup that occurred only hours before my crash. However, fighting with Vista permissions (moving application data over, etc.) is no great joy. However, I'm finding that I am more or less able to move things over with a minimum of pain, and I should be able to get back on my feet with the new machine as soon as I can get Quickbooks installed on it...