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Bought My New Laptop On Friday

So I bought my new laptop on Friday.  The fan for the other laptop just completely stopped working.  It was making no so nice grinding noises and such.  I got the 13 inch laptop.  It's neat and fun and compact.  I've pretty much finally got it all setup except for adobe creative suite.  I'm waiting for that order to come in.

This laptop is a good bit faster than the other one.  It's nice and I really love it.  I'm going to eventually order the bigger second monitor and then also order the replacement fan for the old laptop so I can sell that and get back some money.

I just went over to the KOP mall to buy it.  Nothing super fancy.  Got my educational discount on the machine itself and then got a discount on the apple care as well.  So it's protected for 3 years incase anything happens to the hardware... such as a fan blow out like I just had on the other one.  I also got a little case for it because I like having it all wrapped up in a case.  It's just a no frills all black case.

I also had to buy an updated backup drive because one of my old drives didn't work with this machine.  But I've decided to use that for PC troubleshooting repair.  AND I had to get a USB 3.0 hub because I now have USB 3.0.  That's pretty sweet.  Let's me move things around and work off external drives and such much faster.

So all my software for the music stuff is also working... AND it's now working in full 64 bit.  It wasn't before because I didn't have the latest and greatest.  And now I do.

So I plan to get back to work on finishing up my new song.

Hmmmm so today I went to church and they did I think what was the final sermon in a series of the holy spirit.  The one scene that I thought was a great illustration was that they had 2 people each with a screw and a piece of wood.  They said... ok... so one person gets a regular screw driver... the other person gets a power drill...

Go.

The person with the regular screw driver had all kinds of hard times trying to drill the thing into the wood.  Even though they were using all their might... Meanwhile the person with the power of the power drill just pressed the trigger and it was in like a hot knife through melted butter...

The idea was that... if you try and use your own might... you'll get it... eventually... but if you just let the power of the holy spirit help... like letting the power of the power drill help...

It's SOOOOO much easier.  Makes sense.

Hmmm ok the final part of today's post is that one of the four of my mom's cats isn't doing too great.  She's got cancer.  They found a tumor.  She was kind of acting very odd lately.  She wouldn't come out of the basement and was only eating up in a small crawlspace in the basement and we were bringing food to her.  So my mom took her over to the vet and they found that she had a tumor.  She took her to a specialist and they really just don't think that it's operable.  It's near her liver and so they said they could probably try chemo but the outcome doesn't look promising.  So I'm not sure exactly what's going on.  So my mom is all kinds of upset about it... it's sad and it's hard to know you might have to say goodbye to a pet.  So she's at the specialist now still and I think they might do some kind of blood tests and ultrasounds to figure out more and know for sure if there is or isn't anything they can do.  Just have to wait and see I guess.  She's a cute little cat too... super long nifty looking furry hair and always very affectionate.

Well... Hmm... yea.  I'm just hanging out here at home for the rest of my Sunday.  Working on creative things and in addition to that doing laundry and dishes and other things of that nature.