So, my Macbook is in service.  What happened?  The keyboard doesn’t work.  I had to use an external keyboard and mouse for two days.  I realized that it was basically no longer a laptop so it was the straw that broke the camel’s back and I took it to a place where they service Macs.  The other one that I had been hinging on going to was only open weekdays… and I could never find a time to go.  This one is open on Saturdays so I summoned up the courage to go.  I met a Christian dude behind the counter and it was a pleasant conversation, even as he asked for my password and I told him it was a Bible Scripture reference and he asked me what verse it is.  Thankfully, I know most of it!  This is one great benefit to using Bible Scripture as passwords!  You get to memorize Scripture and yet it could be anything!  Good luck cracking that password.

The iService guy said it would take a week.  This is the longest separation I’ve had from my MacBook Pro since purchasing it in January.  I felt torn.

One big thing is that being computerless (and already TV-less) I feel very alone.  Facebook, Google Talk are actually methods of community (even if they are not great replacements) and so I’m so attached to them it’s hard to pull away.

It’s hard to be without a computer also because so much of my work depends on it.  All my communication with co-workers around the country is based on email.  Even though most of my work is now online through email and Google Docs and online forums, I still need a way to access it all!!

Fortunately, one of my student friends was very gracious and lended me his laptop.  It is old school, I tell ya.  Even the PC that I built during high school was more stacked than this laptop.  294 Mhz processor?  My goodness, that was from way back when we used floppy disks yo.  Back when we spelled disks with a “k”.  Not a “c”.  But having this laptop is still a tremendous blessing, it enables me to actually do necessary work.

I was so tempted in my desperation at one point that I considered buying another MacBook or a Mac mini as a second computer.  I foresee a desktop Mac as a secondary option in the future, I just don’t know when it’ll be…. and whether I can afford it.  But being so tethered to the online world means I can’t really pause for service  here and there…

Crazy eh?  What kind of world do we live in……