Long Weekend cut off from the Internet

This was Martin Luther King weekend and because I work for a municipal government I had Monday off. Justine's little Panasonic notebook is dead, probably permanently. The hard drive is a 1.8 inch 3.3 Volt drive located deep in the gizzard of the thing. I found the directions for taking it apart and replacing the drive it says to allow and hour to disassemble and and hour and a half to assemble. It is like a Chinese Puzzle Box.

I have not found a source for buying a replacement for the little drive, but I found out how to modify a 5 Volt 1.8 inch drive by snipping pins. I am not sure that I want to try this.

When the disk died I lost my archive of cat pictures. The only pictures I have now are the ones that I've uploaded to the blog.

In the mean time, I have ordered a power cable for another one of Justine's castoff notebooks. This one is very old and slow, but it might do if I can find a driver for the USB wifi that I have.

I kept up with my email correspondence and my NameAStar site in the cellar. It was about 40 degrees down there and I could not sit there for long before I started to shiver.

Justine has promised to send me another small computer from her closet of lost technology. I hope she finds it. I am having a computer jones. My eyeballs will fall out if I have to watch any more prime time TV. I can't listen to the MP3 player because I fall asleep and miss huge chunks of the books.

In the mean time, Justine told me that she might be buying the new Apple MacBook Air. Erica said that she wants one, but it is out of my price range. I generally find my computers on the side of the road.