Wanna Get Ficced?

The internet continues to be out. I will not go into details because I'm recording my Wednesday Blog of Awesome* later, and I plan to recount the tale there.

With sock puppets.

But let me just say, Jesus Fucking Christ, people. This went from annoyance to clusterfuck like you would not believe.

*Delivery of WBoA is TBD. Because our internet provider is a fucktard.

Today blows dicks.

That is all.

I'm camped out at the really good local coffee shop with a bottomless cup [$2.83, but there are five kinds of coffee to choose from] and my stack of "to-do". I'm in the mood to bitch and moan, so I'm gonna do that, and then I'm offering up my comments section for everyone else to share in the general venting. Some of us are students, some are teachers, some are tutors, some are librarians. And I think we can all agree that finals time [or that last push to get to June] pretty much sucks massive.

I'd rather be writing porn.

So let's compare notes and get some of the exhaustion out of our systems.

( Wherein you get to hear the perils of being a Professional Writing major )

That's mine. What's yours?

I've had my Mac [iBook G4] for just over 3 years. The computer itself is in good shape, save a few smudges and the stickers I've stuck to the top. However, I'm on my third power cord. My first power cord crapped out after 2-1/2 years of rampant abuse. The wider part of the cord that connected the main part of the cord to the connector basically snapped in half. I bought a second cord from a wholesaler, and the connector component itself [the outer shell of it, to be precise], cracked and slowly broke into two pieces. I bought a third cord from an Apple dealer, and when wrapping up the cord to take my computer elsewhere, I realized the metal connector casing that wraps around the connector prong has a split in it.

Le sigh, I say.

My iBook is the last generation of iBook to have the non-magnetized power cord. There's a part of me that says I should keep my iBook and just buy another [$80] cord. There's a second part of me that says my computer is almost 3-1/2 years old, still in good enough condition to sell [save the power cord, naturally], and that I could buy a new iBook for $1300 [not counting the 10% discount I would get if I bought it at the uni bookstore], sell the one I have now for $600-$800 [I'm still checking to see what my iBook is worth], and end up with a new computer while my current computer goes off to a good home where it'll continue to be loved.

"This is completely not fandom-related," you're thinking. "Why the hell is this here?"

Good question, and I have an answer for it: I think this flist has more general computer knowledge than my other flist; therefore, I'm posing this question to you.

( A few stats on my current model )

I will, of course, take the time to remove any and all personal stuff before I sell, least some unsuspecting person open up Word and finds some half-finished NC-17 that would melt her/his eyeballs.

So, thoughts? Opinions? Pretty pictures of new computers?