Give Us This Day Our Daily Thread December 1st through December 31st 2025

[nhmemorymaker]

I'd better hurry up and get a new laptop.
This one is doing crazy things, like copy and paste often doesn't work.

And now after I uploaded the photo, the laptop without me doing anything made it my screen background.
I knew which laptop I wanted but they discontinued it the week before I tried to buy it.

Then I thought as it was so close to Christmas and all that busyness I'd leave it til after New Years Day to start looking again for a laptop that has the features I need.

Mine is doing crazy as well.
Yahoo keeps taking over my Chrome search engine. And then when I try to reset back to Chrome, something always happens. Right now, I "cannot connect to camera or microphone"(I do us FB video calling quite a bit).
AND I think it screwed up whatever is needed to do financial transactions. I was trying to pay a Verizon bill through their customer service and it would not let me complete the transaction...even with higher level customer support it would just not take my data .
So, I just gotta get a new one.

 

[killarney rose]

well how special for you!! Are your family and guests coming from far distances...??? The chaos sounds great!

I have always felt that Christmas falling on a Thursday is the BEST day of the week for the holiday.
The Friday after is always an extra holiday for most working folks. AND then the weekend...
and then only 3 days of work the following week!

My 2 sons and their families. My daughter lives next door. Sons live in the same city. It’s about a 7 hour drive. I like to call it happy chaos. I spent this past week getting the house in order, only to have it implode upon itself by the time everyone arrives and unloads their vehicle. I love it.

 

[Dotta]

wow....ha ha !! I had forgotten just how smooth a talker he was........
And a story teller!!! what a nice little flash back. thanks for finding and posting...'
He did define the 80s in America, thats for sure.

A man with class and charm.
President Reagan was admired in my country.
He was one of the symbols of political changes in this part of Europe.

"Tear Down This Wall" speech
(to dismantle the Berlin Wall)
at the Brandenburg Gate in West Berlin
is remembered

 

[TootsieFootsie]

Hi @nhmemorymaker


I got a bit confused because I've actually bought two laptops over the past around 8 years.
I started to think that this was the older one, but I just checked my receipt and I only bought this one in November 2024.
The computers are both the same model.

With the other one the hinge broke, but it still kept working so I've been using both of them.

This one only had a 12 month warrenty so I'm just a month out of warranty.

I think I might have to end up reinstalling windows. That could possibly fix what's wrong.
Sometimes it's fine.

I've never had a laptop that had problems after only 12 months.

Maybe it needs cleaning inside, I think they use canned air.

I could pay sometime to do that I suppose, it's just that I've always done my own fixing.
But not the physical part like opening it up.

Sorry I don't know the current laptops not since they all seem to have Co Pilot and I'm wary of it.

 

[TootsieFootsie]

Haha the reason I felt like I'd been using this laptop for years it's because it's the same as my old one.
Or this last 12 months lasted forever. That actually could be true. At times it did feel like that.

Or I'm going round the bend

 

[TootsieFootsie]

This little guy isn't so scary, he's actually cute

 

[TootsieFootsie]

Grrr computers.
I was trying to fill out a form but the very end bit where you press enter wasn't to be found.
My laptop refused to go full screen which I thought might let me see the whole form.

I think the end of the form was hidden under my task bar and it's so long I've forgotten how to hide the task bar anyway.

 

[TootsieFootsie]

My laptop has to have a 15.6 inch screen, ITB, 16 GB Ram. and be around $800.
I want an Acer.

The only other ones that have what I want are over 1000 dollars.

Hopefully mine will come right if I give it a good talking to. That sometimes works for me.

I'm very tempted to use the whack whack method