Sunday, September 12, 2010

Temporary delay

My apologies for the great length of time between posts. . . I know everyone is just dying to know what's new in rural Cambodia, that old hot spot of trend setters and world changing political movements. I had a whole post written up about this summer, and my travels and visitors and then my laptop gave out on me. It literally just died while i was in the middle of something. Odds are not something important, but still. So I took it to the place that has a decent rep for rehabilitating computers in Siem Reap. The technician was really nice, inspected and tested everything and then concluded, "It's the motherboard." "Is that bad?" I asked, but based on the name alone I was pretty sure it was bad. The kindly computer technician told me it couldn't be fixed. My laptop had up and died, taking that last un posted blog post with it, as well as an article destined for our in country Peace Corps newsletter, some npr podcasts, and a few academic papers written my senior year of college. So long story short I am sans computer at least for the time being. Maybe in the time lapse I can think of something entertaining and witty to post when I next have computer access. In the meantime I anticipate reading a lot. . . There are worse things.