As you may have noticed, nearly the entire month of November has passed without a blog update. This is what happens when you have a nearly dead and then completely dead laptop. The laptop started acting crazy when I was in Texas at the beginning of October. I limped along by running and repairing bad sectors on the hard drive. When I had to do it a second time, I knew that it needed some "real" help. I backed up as much as I could, including uploading our pictures to Google photos--the only glitch is that it takes forever to upload files when the computer is struggling to run.
I took it to our residency missionary/tech, Ryan Blackstock, and he looked it over for me. He kept it while we were gone to Guatemala (hence, no blogs about VBS) and we picked it up the day before we left for the states. Unfortunately, he had to restore it to it's original settings (Windows 8) to get it to boot up; he also mentioned that the hard drive is failing so it's just a matter of time before it's completely useless.
We have ordered a new hard drive, but now that we're in the states, we haven't found anyone to install it. So, I'm borrowing a computer for now and hoping that I can get mine up and running enough to do our December newsletter. If not, I'll just send out an email update and worry about the laptop repair when I get back to El Salvador at the end of the year.
We seem to have the worst luck with laptops--there are three dead ones at our apartment and so the latest makes four. Not sure if it's the hot weather, all the travel, the level of dust in the air or all of the above.
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