My laptop's touchpad and keyboard died, so it only has mouse function now for some reason. I contacted the manufacturer, and chances are I'm either going to have to ship it in for replacement (which will take a couple months) or just fork out the money to someone outside of the warranty to look at it, which will cost me out the ass with no guarantee they can actually fix it. I'll probably just trade it in so I don't have to worry about the same thing happening in the future. I'd just work on it myself, however I've never even heard of this problem before and have no idea where to begin.

Meanwhile, I'd just use my tower, but it's giving me crap as well. I have no idea what its problem is, and am going to have to see if Dünkel can't come up with something I haven't thought of yet.

I'll be checking in to see what the other writers are doing and probably making occasional posts, however since I'm forced to use the computer labs I'll be less frequent in posting and not be on messenger services at all. Most of you have my email address and phone number (cyberialane@hotmail.com is good) if you need to get in touch.

Weird how not having the computer available in my room has made me, you know, STUDY. The downside is that when I come up with good writing topics I have nowhere to put them and they just vanish (I can't handwrite fast at all, especially not as fast as I can think. I can pound out over 100 words a minute if I need to on a computer, and sometimes even that isn't adequate, so...yeah. Need the compy).

That's it for the status report.

And remember, Germanic kiddos: Bruder vor Lüder! Squee!