it's in the shop; we sent it away monday. i was very despondant, woefull, and other synonyms for sad. but i'm sure i'll be none of those things when he [lappy] comes back all fixed and perfect... pshh
the wireless LAN hardware died (about 3.5 months ago), the speakers failed and the power button required lots of stamina and a bottle opener every single time i needed to turn the damn thing on... but since all of these things have been reconized by the company (HP -_-) as initial failures on their part, this is all going to be done for no cost at all, or at least a very small one (s&h etc i dunno).
so now i'm upstairs on our family computer typing this journal while waiting for openoffice to download so i can have some kind of word processor to type my speech on. amazingly, this computer has nothing, no microsoft office or word, no corel, no anything with adaquate formatting. also amazingly, we learned of this speech yesterday, and it's due tomorrow. it's an informal one but there are certain things required and i forgot them since i failed to get the little sheet of paper that listed them... yea...