Procrastination has always been my strong suit. Why rush to do things, when it is inconvenient? Better to put it off until it hits crisis stage. I’m good at it.

In this case, my laptop has a defect in the motherboard that eventually killed the wi-fi and could cause the computer to fail to start-up. It’s a defect the company apparently knew about and is willing to repair for free. Including free shipping to and from the repair facility.

Well, the wi-fi went in October. Rather than send it right in for the couple weeks it would take with shipping and the repairs, I just bought a USB wireless card to get through college football and basketball season.

By March, it would occasionally have the computer not start. So, we went out and picked up a little netbook to get by just in case it wouldn’t work at a key time. Oddly enough, we can’t get the thing to connect to our home wireless. It connects fine elsewhere, but it won’t get onto ours. I’ve played around with all the settings on the network. Even took down all the security. Still nothing connecting. Naturally, I just haven’t had the time during the business hours to call the help line for the wireless set-up.

That meant, still putting off sending in the laptop. Until, of course, it finally just won’t start at all. That putting things off, though, also applied to backing up the harddrive on the laptop. Something I neglected to do for the past six weeks. Now with it not starting at all I have to do it the hard way.

That means getting a external enclosure to take out the hard drive to plug in and back it up.

All this has meant going back to a desktop and having to share computer time with the wife and kids for the time being. They don’t like to share with me.

Finally, I’m tentatively dipping a toe in the social media thing with Twitter. I’ll find out if I can handle a 140 character limit.