Electronic Junk

We've been having trouble with the laptop that K and I share. Months ago, we might have been a bit rough opening and closing it and after that, the screen quite often will flicker on and off until you slap it, or tilt it backwards or something. It's quite annoying so we decided to get it fixed. M cleared the cache, moved all the photos to a hard disk and took as many security precautions we could think of. Then he took it to the 'Geek Squad' people at Best Buy Electronics. They said it would cost $450 to fix the problem and gave him a flyer with brand new laptops going for $469.

It's surprising how easy it is to create electronic junk. It's a perfectly good laptop otherwise but they would have had to take intricate wiring apart. Well, we'll see how long we keep going on this laptop for now.

Yesterday I 'baked' a pumpkin pie in the oven using this E.D. Smith recipe as a guide. I had a package of Pillsbury ready made pie crust and a can of E.D.Smith pumpkin pie filling. What amazed me, as I don't usually bake a lot, was that the pie crust was all ready to roll into the pie plate. So I just had to whip an egg, some milk and the pie filling together, pour it into the pre-shaped crust, and bake away!