Merry Christmas to Me

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The wonders of The Mahablog are more wondrous than you may realize. I’m cranking it out on a laptop purchased as a discontinued model in 2008. And while it may have some life in it, I’ve taken to evoking protective spirits every morning to ward off the Blue Screen of Death one more day. Some of my software crashes every few minutes. Overall, the thing has become slow and glitchy, and the keyboard is now missing a couple of key caps, notably the cap on the letter N, which I actually use sometimes. (I blame Sadie Awful Bad Cat for this.) My printer has good and bad days as well.

So I keep thinking, OK, next month for sure I’m getting another computer. And next month some unanticipated expense comes up that makes spending the money on a computer a bit frightening. So now I’m thinking, screw it; I’m having a fundraiser.

Your contribution will go into my new computer fund and also help cover the cost of bandwidth at my web host. I’m paying more for bandwidth that I probably need to, but the web host I finally settled on is wonderfully reliable and I’d hate to cut back. I’d also like to point out that if you buy stuff from Amazon (OK, yeah, it’s Amazon), if you go to Amazon through the links in the right-hand sidebar I’m supposed to get a small cut of the sale.

Please know that I appreciate your support, in whatever form.





18 thoughts on “Merry Christmas to Me”

  1. maha,
    Oh, how I wish I could give!
    You know how much I love you.
    But every month, my Mom and I are drawing from her limited small savings, just to make ends meet.

  2. Kicked in ten bucks for me, and ten bucks for ‘Gulag. (Unless CUNDG has another preferred gift including a paypal-able address – in which case I guess it’ll be twenty from me. Whatever.)

  5. Wow, Maha. You posted your fundraiser just a little too late. I already sent my monthly giving to the Samaritan’s Purse. God is going to bless me abundantly for it! Pressed down, shaken together, and overflowing.

    just kidding…I sent a little something. I appreciate what you do!

  8. O.T. another reason to despise Wal-Mart. I see that Alice has beat another DUI rap so a quick google and I found This. Could this family be any more despicable?

  9. uncledad,
    She deserves the harshest punishment possible.
    But, because of who she is, she’ll continue to run over “moocher’s” and “takers’ with impunity, and a simple, “Whoooooops!?

  11. “Whoooooops!?

    No shit, could you imagine the outrage if this was not the second richest women in the USA but the 20th (Oprah), my god the right wing moral universe would converge in a mighty storm of moral indignation and outrage not seen since Chappaquiddick. Dam liberal media!!!!!

  12. I get paid on Friday. I’m thinking of you. I have gotten good deals from time to time from Tiger Direct. Check the refurbished laptops. My wife’s computer croaked a few months ago and I paid $250 for a ‘used’ box (Windows 7, gobs of memory, super-fast processor) with a 1-year warranty. You don’t get cutting edge stuff if you buy used, but I don’t need cutting edge.

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  15. Don’t know what kind of machine you’re looking at buying, but I just bought me one of these babies. It arrived Monday and is a bit more than I need, but seemed like a pretty good deal.

    Replacing this, which is going to my nephew (via Santa).

    • Monty — that’s in line with what I’m looking for, although I’m thinking about a faster processor if it’s not too expensive. More like an AMD A8-5550M or better. There seem to be some good deals on PC laptops right now.

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