They say a picture says a thousand words... well I'll just show you a pic first.


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As you may or may not know... that's my laptop powercable. And yes, it's burnt in two. Yes it's not powering my laptop, and yes it doesn't look healthy.
A few days ago I got a new cable for the laptop... only to find out that I've also got a prob with my laptop itself... Something is wrong with something in there that deals with power. So now I've got to put my laptop in the shop or send it off to HP. One way or another I'm not going to be happy, and I'm not going to have my laptop.
ATM I'm on my dad's laptop. I like mine far far far far better... but there's nothing I can do about it (at least I get to use my 20" monitor). No Wi-Fi, got almost nothing installed (he doesn't have RealPlayer, he doesn't have Windows Live Messenger, no FireFox, and heck, he's still sitting on Windows Media Player 9 (my laptop is on WMP 11). AHHHH it's killing me.
So, here's how it's going to go... this week is soooo friggen busy, and I have a hard enough time keeping up with my forum. So I'm likely rarely going to be on GS for the rest of the week. I plan on calling HP maybe Monday and seeing how much it would cost to repair it... or set it up so I can send it in. And here I thought I was getting a PS3 in June...

So yea, that's why I haven't been on lately.