I was watching a movie on my computer last Monday when the screen suddenly froze, the computer coughed a few times, and then it keeled over and died. Attempts at resuscitation failed. This is the primary reason I haven’t blogged in about a week.

A few days later I realized I have a 10-inch Acer notebook, and after some finagling I managed to find a USB mouse and keyboard, hook up my speakers, and attach my 21-inch desktop monitor to the laptop and treat it as a makeshift desktop. It has actually worked out fairly well so far, although I did do a post-mortem on my computer to find out the exact cause of death.

A trip to NCIX got me a new motherboard, power supply and DVD Rom, all of which I think were dead. (The DVD player had been broken for a while, thanks to an episode of impatience when I tried to force it open with a screwdriver). So when these are all installed I should be back to the usual setup.

The reason you can expect more light posting is that although I’m finished journalism school there’s one more week in which our college newspaper simulates a daily newspaper. We put out a newspaper every day from Monday to Friday, and the hours are going to be long.

But after this week I should have more time to get back to writing again. There’s also a good chance I’ll be leaving Vancouver soon, as I’m looking to settle into a small-town newspaper, but I’ll let people know when those details are finalized.