Tech Wars

Earlier today I was able to download a photo from a cd, copy it to the church bulletin I was working on, size it and print 350 copies of the complete document.  Doesn't sound like much but I felt great.  Over the last three years I've come a long way with my computer skills at work.  I'm actually pretty competent with publisher.  Then I got home and sat down with my laptop to write this blog and waited 20 minutes while it thought about connecting to google chrome.  I'm writing in a rush now in case it just shuts down.  I had it in for some minor repairs earlier this week and was informed that my computer's battery is "just about fried", among other problems.  This leads me to think I might want to start shopping for a new computer - this one is eight years old - but first I would like to know that the government is done being shut down or at least that my social security payment has been deposited.  I know, I know, I want so much.