Yet another laptop update

I received the laptop back from dell, and at first glance everything was working ok (minus the one part they didn’t have in stock which the nice little note included in the shipping container says they will send to me). In fact, I am using it to write this post. (Typing! Hallelujah!) However, there is something fishy going on with the area on either side of the track pad where I rest my wrists when typing – If I apply a certain amount of pressure in certain spots (which I keep doing accidentally) strange things start happening – weird characters appear on the screen if the cursor is in a typable spot, if I’m in an internet browser it starts trying to back up to previous pages… in fact I was halfway through a lovely long post about Larry’s Pizza when this started happening and I lost it. If I weren’t in public some choice language might have been uttered.

So I suppose tomorrow back to Dell my poor little computer goes! I’ve been very sad without it, I hate being chained to my office desk at home on my old desktop. Technically I could compose my little ramblings on pencil and paper and then take them to the computer for entry, but that is just so old-fashioned.