All kinds of news, and no new posts on the Chronicle…. What’s going on?

Answer: Computer problems. My Dell Inspiron 1501 is on the blink. Lately, it’s been shutting off unexpectedly. Not shutting down — shutting off. One second it’s on, and I’m in the middle of typing something, and the next second — POOF! — it’s off. Completely off. Totally off. Kind of disconcerting. Especially when it won’t boot back up again… for a couple days. Then, one day, you press the power button and it boots right up as if nothing ever happened.

So, a new laptop is in our near future. In fact, it’s being assembled now and will ship soon. A powerful motherboard from a pcb solutions company will be installed in my new computer so it should be able to handle my everyday tasks easily.

Well, now I’m getting excited to receive my new computer. I can’t wait to use it for my blog. In the meantime, if I go a couple days without posting, you’ll know why.