Tense moments
It was a tense time. The adrenalin was flowing. There were moments when I held my breath. And there were moments when I blew out hard, to clear the dust from it.
My laptop, that is. I got an extra memory module for it this week - and unlike the one I bought for Scratchy’s laptop last night, this one isn’t for a desktop. It arrived this morning, so I did my intrepid-explorer bit and installed it. Because it’s a super-thin laptop, it’s a bit more complicated to install new memory, so I’ve just had it in pieces:
I hope nobody’s squeamish 
I had to find the instruction manual to figure out how to do it, which meant getting out the box it all came in. Inside the box is the docking station for the laptop, which has lots of extra bits and pieces on it. I don’t think it had ever been out of its plastic wrapping before, so I looked at it just so I could say I’d seen it. Other things in the box that I’d never looked at before included a portable floppy disc drive, a spare power thingy, a thing that fills in the space if you want to take the CD/DVD drive out. I’ve only had this laptop for 2.5 years 
Barney insisted I take a photo of the screen, as a record of “the time when mum’s laptop was turned off - I want to remember this!” 
Of course it’s been turned back on now - and it’s working 
There’s a lot less dust inside it now too - and it’s so much faster! Just whizzing along 
Deb does a little happy dance 
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Loved Barney’s comment