Ugh !

aka how I feel this morning !

The story from Friday : I left the AC adapter for the baby laptop in NY at the casino.
I called and a helpful security agent found my phone. Warren itemized the adapter and gave me a reference # to use.         We'll be ' forced ' to go back and pick up the adapter.
Meanwhile, I went on line and found an AC adpater at Amazon for $ 28, tax and shipping extra and it ships by May 20 - 26.

Then I had an epiphany, I drove over to the local fix it shop. The dude had an adapter. This store is the kind of place where the guys plugs in your laptop and makes sure it works. Then sends you out the door. All cash - $28 all in.
At the same time, he was dealing w/ an older lady who had brought in her laptop b/c of bugaboos w/ Yahoo mail. The dude suggested switching to another service. He picked Google. The lady looked frazzled, so I went over and said ' Trust me, Computers equal grief '
She explained that all was going well yesterday and then to-day, trouble.
I let her know this is pretty much what happens to everyone. I guided her while she got in to G mail and she thanked me. I'm not sure how much better she felt but I had to let her know that she is not the only one going through this stuff.
I then explained to the dude in the store in my broken Chinese- English that this laptop is the one that this store had a) increased the memory b) added a Solid State Drive to make the thing faster.
NOPE !
I relayed my ridiculously slow loading time w/ the laptop.
And told how I converted the laptop to run stand alone Chrome OS and how much faster the laptop got.
He found CloudReady, said that he had never heard of converting and then said Thank You b/c he got 4 customers a week w/ the same problems.
Older, less powerful machine overwhelmed w/ all the background crap that the platforms such as Windows sends out.


a good day and we're still going back to the casino  Yeah !

Recommend : if you have a soul or want to nourish one
then go to YouTube and find Lady Caliph, the dinner,  played by YoYo Ma / written by Ennio Morricone