- i love how easy the list-making makes blogging. it links random thoughts together.
- i have an old, cheapie laptop. and increasingly it gave me trouble. as i cannot afford a new one, i sent it in for repairs and a RAM upgrade. R2100 and 3 months later, and it still doesn't work. i sent it back again. i regret having it fixed. i wasted lots of money.
- in desperation, i signed a 36-month (!) internet contract with vodacom, and i got a new HP laptop. this was the only way i could afford to get a new one, but i hate those long commitments. 3 years is a long time! the upside is that it has a 3-year guarantee, and when the contract expires, i can sign another if i want, and get a new laptop!
- i have to mention here that beauty, who works at the vodacom shop in the lakeside mall in benoni, gave me wonderful service. she is friendly and efficient and knowledgeable. in these days where service is scarce, she went above and beyond. i was going to buy elsewhere, but her great service got her my signature.
- having said that, i am getting very impatient with the poor vodacom signal lately. halfway through the morning the connection starts dropping and the internet gets impossibly slow, and it only gets better in the late afternoon. this means that they are probably over-subscribed.
- i will be able to go online at home again. so i can play more scrabble on facebook update my blog more regularly, and keep up with your blogs and my emails too.
- check out this interesting project. it is a wedding advent calendar. i love it!
- i have upated my blogroll. since i have started using google reader to keep up with the blogs i read, i have let the blogroll slip. so, now it is all current again. and yes, i read EVERY post from every one of those blogs. really. not everyone updates all the time, though. i also played a little with a new look for the blog. i'm not sure i like it, i may change it back. it is a little bland for me. once again i wish typepad would let me customise my blog without charging me more...
- i laughed so much about this letter of complaint, that the tears caused mascara streaks.
- for those of you who asked: to embed a file in the blog like i did here with a .pdf file, you need a typepad blog. i knew there had to be a reason why i have to pay for my blog and you bloggers don't. :-) well, that and the awesome stats it keeps. and i have never lost my sidebar items, sophia and helen.
that's all for today, folks. i have to go dust off my VERY rusty creativity, on a uninspiring friday afternoon, and make a card for someone. to make a few bucks...
jacki janse van rensburg - SCRAPPIN TIMES scrapbook shop, benoni, gauteng, south africa