Well, I managed to sell one of my typewriters, so that’s one down, five to go. I’ve decided to keep the Olivetti Lettera 22 because it’s the first one I bought and it’s just so cute. (It looks just like this one except mine has a few scratches and worn spots in the paint.) I still have all my furniture to sell, a crapload of clothes to get rid of, books to sort through, etc. I suppose I should wait until further down the line since I said I was going to try to stay here until my lease ends at the end of April but I know how I am about preparing and packing for a move: I’m the Last-Minute Queen. Well this time I’m not going to be delayed one more minute than I have to be — I want to be ready to throw my cats and suitcase in the car and go.
By the way, I will be collecting funds in my Paypal and Amazon accounts for the move. Every little bit helps! Thanks in advance. One more thing: I think my laptop is totally dead. I’m pretty sure the hard drive crapped out. Getting that fixed will probably cost as much as buying another one (you can get decent laptops for $500 now) so I will probably end up doing that instead. Towards that end I’ll be selling my almost-new desktop along with the monitor. It came with all these bells and whistles I never use, like a home-theater attachment thing, and a bunch of drives, and all this stuff, and the monitor is a 17″ LCD that I already had that I’m throwing into the price — I’ll probably charge $500 for it.
I can’t wait to move.
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October 14th, 2008 at 9:01 am
Andrea, assuming you feel competent to swap the hard drive or can find someone to do it for you, you can get a new laptop hard drive for around $100, or less if you hunt around and get it mail-order. That assumes that’s the only thing wrong, of course.
October 14th, 2008 at 9:26 am
It had a fan problem too, according the error messages I was getting before it cacked out completely.
October 15th, 2008 at 11:15 am
Yeah, probably a problem, then. Unlike desktop machines, they don’t use fans in a small handful of standard sizes that you could get a replacement for at Best Buy.
Depending on WHICH fan it was, it’s possible you could get one of those laptop coolers, or, depending on who made it, you might be able to get a replacement part. But then you have to ask yourself if you want to spend the time doing it, or finding someone to do it for you.