It’s Excerpt Monday again!
Bria and Mel are at it again. Everyone wants to play along with Excerpt Monday! If you’d like to join in this meme, visit their Guidelines page for more details.
We’ve been sick as dogs at my house, so I’m hoping this’ll be coherent! I went for something that put me in the mood for summer: ices at Gunter’s! Apologies to those who’ve read this before.
I’ve been floundering along for a while with some of the keys on my laptop not working properly. The buttons, F5, 5, T, G, B, -, and [ as well as weird things with the left butterfly or command key. It kept working on and off and it was very annoying.
Back at the beginning of March, I took it up to the Apple Store which is less than 10 minutes away. They replaced the keyboard, but said if that didn’t fix it, it was likely the logic board and without warranty and no extended Apple Care, I’d probably be better off buying a new one. So once they finally got the part in and after 3 trips up there (stupid appointment scheduling), I had it back. It worked fine in the store, but then it wasn’t very warm either. Got it home and the keys flaked out again as soon as it warmed up.
This persisted off and on for a couple more months and we discovered that if you leaned slightly on the right side next to the trackpad, you could get those keys to work again. Not an ideal solution by any means.
Last week, the keyboard and trackpad both stopped responding suddenly. The kids thought the whole computer had frozen and rebooted frequently. Didn’t help. Installed Hardware Growler and learned it was the internal USB for the keyboard and trackpad that were cutting out and back in. Then, it completely quit. Nothing brought it back, but an external keyboard and mouse still worked just fine.
On Saturday, I dropped it off at an independent Apple repair shop and told them the sad saga. They said it was probably the keyboard, and if not, it was probably the logic board. I suggested it might just need a top case since Apple had just replaced the keyboard a couple months ago and it hadn’t fixed it once I brought it home and it warmed up. They didn’t take me very seriously, but agreed to check that step between the keyboard and logic board. They called Monday to say it was the top case. Go figure.
Everything seems peachy now and it’s warm and toasty. It’s such a relief not to have to copy and paste characters as part of normal typing! So now I have no excuses to not be writing and need to buckle down again. I guess I won’t be reading as much as I have the past couple of weeks.
Pedestrian bridge from our hotel to the beach across the PCH.
So we’re all settled in and looking forward to a couple of carefree days. Have a great weekend!
It’s Excerpt Monday again!
Bria and Mel are at it again. Everyone wants to play along with Excerpt Monday! If you’d like to join in this meme, visit their Guidelines page for more details.
This month’s excerpt is from The Flower Queen’s Daughter. It’s a bit longer than I had intended to post, but I didn’t want to cut the scene in half as neither half felt complete without the other. And I didn’t want people hunting me down and torturing me to find out what happens in the end. I hope you enjoy and, as always, any comments, criticisms are welcome. I’ve already found LOTS to rewrite and redo, but not this month!
Seventeen years ago today, my husband and I tied the knot on an overcast morning beside the Chester River in Chestertown, Maryland where we went to college. This was one week before he graduated, four months before his 21st birthday. We had a surprisingly large turnout of all our friends and family considering it wasn’t just Mother’s Day Weekend, but Mother’s Day itself.
We’ve joked through the years that we gave our mom’s gifts that would keep on giving. For better or for worse, they each got the son or daughter they’d never had. Over the years, they’ve also received a matched set of grandchildren: one girl, one boy. I hope they both recognize the love we have for them even if we’re not always the best at showing or telling them. We’ve only shared the day one other time in 1998 before today. (Calendar dates and weekdays coincide every 5, 6 or 11 years depending on leap years or not.)
I was looking through the photo albums of our wedding pictures this morning. I hadn’t remembered the edges of the pages had melted and fused together in many places ten years ago in a house fire. I should do something about that. However, what annoyed me was the realization that the photographer sucked. We have several pictures of this one guy I don’t recognize any more now than when we got the pictures back. We have numerous pictures with the wedding party, pictures of the reception, pictures of us with my parents, pictures of us with his dad’s family and then his mom’s family.
So, what’s the problem? It was FREAKING Mother’s Day. We don’t have any pictures of us with JUST our mothers (or even with just all four of our parents for that matter). I had to crop a picture from the receiving line to get THIS one of both of our mothers together. Sheesh. (Oh, and that’s my youngest brother-in-law there in front of his mom. He’s taller than I am now!)
Happy Mother’s Day to Lynnda and Yvonne and Happy Anniversary, dear!
What’s the best gift you ever received or gave on Mother’s Day?
