I contacted my old boss to see if he'd be willing to let me buy the laptop I was using when I worked for them. It's a few years old and kind of clunky so I didn't think they'd be passing it on to anyone else to use for work. It has an issue with one of the display drivers but I was going to have to re-image it anyway to get all the company proprietary stuff off of it.

I checked around and this particular laptop is going for ~$550 - ~$700 used. My old boss is willing to sell it for $300, so it seems like a great deal up front. However, when I re-imaged the machine the display problem was not fixed. I talked to Manny, my friend and official computer guru, and he said it could be indicitive of a larger problem. I need to go out to the Dell website and download the latest drivers and see if that fixes the problem. If it's a bigger problem then it would cost me more money to fix it so my 'good deal' might not turn out that way. I'm inclined to believe it is more than the driver now, I've noticed a slightly brighter glow in the bottom left corner of the screen and I wonder if there may be some kind of wiring issue. I have to deliver a check for the machine pretty soon if I want it but I can't decide if I want to risk paying $300 for a machine that has potentially significant problems or if I want to turn it back in and just not get a laptop until I can afford a new one. Hmmm. Why must this be difficult? All I want it a servicable laptop at a good price so James will quit getting on my case for hogging the desktop all the time.

I've done virtually nothing this weekend. Meredith missed the bus to the track scrimmage on Saturday, so she'll be hearing it from the coach tomorrow. We dropped her off at her dad's yesterday evening and went to Richard and Tracey's. Tracey had a migraine and was lying down so we didn't see her but we hung out with Richard and the kids until after midnight. By the time we got home it was past 1:00 and I haven't been able to recover my energy all day.

Becky and Manny have signed up for IVF treatments. Becky was worried that I'd be distressed over this because James and I haven't been able to make that happen for ourselves. Not long ago it probably would have made me a bit sullen but I'm proud to say that I only felt happy for them, not sorry for myself. I've come to a point where I've pretty much accepted that Meredith will always be an only child. She's nearly sixteen and even if I were to manage to get pregnant it would be like raising two 'only' children rather than like raising siblings. I'm even starting to look forward to having more freedom. The only real benefit to having had Meredith as young as I did is that I'll still be in my mid-thirties when she goes to college. If I got pregnant now that freedom would be delayed until I was in my fifties.

Well, that's all for now. Laundry calls!
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