Well Tuesday 22nd January was a challenging one for this eco-warrior - following the malfuntioning laptop came the complete destruction of my car following a RTC. On the same day!!!! No longer an RTA I am informed. A Road Traffic Accident suggests it was an accident and it has now been decided that as this is a matter of opinion it will now be called a Road Traffic Collision.
So the collision has rendered me car-less so I am once again faced with do I replace it or not? I am thankful I did not rush out and replace my laptop as I simply removed the "enter button" twiddled around a bit and now it seems to be working again fine. I have failed to repair the "backspace" button however I am managing fine without it. Result! Now the car is not going to be quite as simple as that - no amount of twiddling will rescue Felix the Fiesta from car heaven!
So life without a car! I already use the bus a lot however there are some things which are diffficult without a car - for example transporting The Green Workshop to the Brighton Science Festival. Well my options are - in order of greeness - walk, take a bus, take a taxi, car club, hire a car, buy a car. Watch this space!
Tuesday, 29 January 2008
Tuesday, 22 January 2008
Laptop Malfunction
Dilemma - do I buy a new laptop? It's five years old, the CD / DVD is slightly faulty, the mouse does not work so we are using an external mouse, the letters and numbers have worn off the keys (a,e,o,l,m,n) and while they have been rewritten using tippex and then covered with clear nail varnish - there is a limit to how mant times this can be done. Finally the backspace button and enter button are no longer working following a spillage of tea - this is making life very difficult!! I have managed a morning at work with all these handicaps - in the interest of the environment do I struggle on or do I succumb and buy a new one?
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