The Blue Screen of Death

Which, actually, isn’t the problem plaguing my computer, now in the shop until further notice. Instead, it’s an overheating issue (or lack of cooling, or fan defect, or whatever excuse du jour causes the Monstrosity to shut down when it wants to, not when I want it to.) So until I get this sorted, posting will be light to nonexistent.

Then again, I’ve been thinking about getting a new laptop – one that doesn’t weigh nine and a half pounds and look like the proverbial misfit wherever I take it. Suggestions welcome in the backblogs, although at the moment I’m rather leery of TOSHIBA – unless they can fix that damn overheating problem…