The Computer Complication Chronicles.

(Should be the name for the past 5 months of my life.)
My promise to become a steady blogger slowly failed, but as one of my roomates here, Marcy, insists, I can justify just about anything- and in this case, I'll take a few minutes to justify myself for the four entries I have posted in my five months of living overseas so far...
The computer complication Chronicles actually began about five and a half months ago right after my arrival to Israel, where my computer decided to dim itself, not allowing me to see ANYTHING on the screen, but just enough to see there was something there if I tilted it and held it upside down in the right light. I called my apartment manager Nachum (who Marcy, Gina and I like to refer to as Dad) and asked him for some friendly recommendations for a computer guy...little did I know this computer man and I would soon form a long term friendship. Yechiel the Window's man became my most frequent caller on my cell in my first month here. My computer is fixed, its not, it needs this, it needs that, pay for it, get it back, breaks again, take it back, cant fix it, can fix it, gives me my money back, DRIVES me to another computer man upon his recommendation- things get messy. This new guy fixes it again, replaces a piece, charges me a ton, and I walk out sighing, thinking I would be done with this whole mess, money aside, it was worth it.. WRONG AGAIN. Wrong prognosis,computer stops working about a week later, and i'm fuming. Take it back once more.. they tell me that I have to pay over 1,000nis (after what I previously paid) and I say I don't want them to fix it, i'm through, I'm mailing it home, not dealing with any more hole-in-the-wall shady computer stores filled with piles of hard drives, wires and laptops. I go in the next morning to pick up my broken computer, having paid them two weeks prior for nothing, and i'm taking it to the post-office. I walk in, they replaced the part! And i'm expected to pay. I refuse to pay explaining that I told them not to do anything to it, and I was done, they already didn't fix it once, and I wasn't paying- I didn't give them permission to fix it- so the man grabs the computer from my hand, ready to re-break it, ripping the new piece out. I freak. I grab my computer, my hebrew turns into fast pace english screaming (not a word of it they understood) and I storm out the door, computer under-arm.
I'm fuming, but also quietly laughing because they just replaced the computer piece, made me tell the man who did it to his face I refused to pay telling me it was my fault this man won't get paid, and here I am, finally with a working computer, and felt like I got away with something.. although I didn't really because I had already paid for what they didn't fix prior.
In any event, this short story might seem like enough reason to forgive my lack of blogging... but then it gets better. My lovely dell goes blue-screen. Virus attack. Nothing works.
I decide my mom is coming in a month, I put my computer in a closet in my apt. and se la vie. Lilah tov machshav.
So, here I am, sitting at Cup O' Joe. My mom just left Israel this morning, and I now have her computer, she took mine to have it fixed.. and for some reason, hers isn't working with my apartment's wireless.. not to mention, if you think she brought me her computer and all was simple,it didn't end happily quite there.. this computer was thought to be gone for a moment when my mom and I arrived in Herzliya and she realized she left it in her hotel in Jerusalem....
I suppose this starts chapter I of the sequel to the Computer Complication Chronicles... The Computer Complication Chronicles II.. What will Sarah do to break her mother's laptop now that it is in Israel?

Peace & Love