La Bene Vita

Frozen...

...and it's not just my hard drive.

I had a vacation last week, so you would think I'd be refreshed. I'm not. I'm going through the motions. Our student count has been depressing, but today we're "up" to 253 after a whopping 14 enrollments (8 private lesson and 6 samplers) on Monday alone. Maybe we're out of the woods. Maybe we aren't. I'm in a holding pattern. Waiting to see what happens next. Frozen.

Meanwhile, I have projects: two websites (MTMS and church) in the pipeline for renovation; one website (local food pantry) for implementation; paperless timekeeping at work, among other paperless transitions; electronics upgrades and replacements; and, I suppose, the usual writing endeavors. All of this on top of judging for Ohio Idol (which gets less and less fun each round), performing at an increasing number of venues this summer, and managing my employees.

I bought an expensive pink Dell laptop maybe five years ago. After three hard drives and two motherboards, Dell finally agreed that the unit was a lemon (later proven by the class action suit against the video card manufacturer). I got a replacement Dell "of equal or greater value," which, to my dismay, was at least twice as big and heavy and refused to fit into any cute laptop purse I could find. It was also black instead of the pink I'd specifically purchased, and it did not include software I'd purchased. But it did okay and lasted another two years or so. Then the WiFi card started to fail, and the computer politely declined to stay online. I purchased a used HP Pavilion Entertainment laptop less than a year ago, and now Windows has warned me of "imminent failure" of the hard drive.

Frozen laptops don't help my waning momentum. I feel like I need a Win.