Computers!!!!!!

Whatever economic or political doom and gloom raining on our lives today just has to wait it's turn for my attention. I have bigger problems. COMPUTER problems. It actually goes back a bit. The ol' 98 puked before x-mas. Now you say "Oh come on Cyndy, what are you crying over a 98 for"? Well, the dance kids write their papers on it and we do a lot of publishing on it, plus it has the translating software on it which I desperately need. That one can be fixed. We just need the time to rerun all the cd's to reboot it. The thing has 99 lives. It just needs it's reboot fix every so often.
Then there is the terribly slow windows xp. The thing is as slow as molassis, but NEVER breaks down. It needs a new cooling fan. Again no time to fuss with it. That one we really encourage for dancers since it seems indestructable and we really won't lose any sleep if it does croak.
Then there is Grandma's taking up space and being a dust collector. She can't remember how to use it any more, BUT since she is 84, has cancer and can be a bit of a pill, we will just leave it for now so I don't have the stress.
Matt and the girls have a pretty high powered newer xp that they shanghied me into. I leave it alone since they fill it full of viruses and crap constantly and I don'y have time to clean up their messes.
That leaves the 2 laptops. They aren't fancy. But they do what they need to. They roam the planet with the Kalinowski clan and really make life nice.
However, yesterday one of our very tiniest, very adorable dancers spilled a little water on one of the laptops. I don't know yet if it's a casualty or not. Right now "she's a drying out some more" in front of the pellet stove.
Of course this is messing up everyone's groove and creating moaning and groaning around here.
But we shall purservere. I just don't have the time for this. Computers are absolutely wonderful when they work. But when they don't ##@@@&&%%****!