Disconnected, but not dead.

My laptop died the other day and now it is in the careful, and probably greedy hands of Mac Store technicians. It's going to cost be $45 to diagnose the problem, and then who knows what it's going to cost to fix it. In an ideal world, I'd just go out an upgrade. Eventually I will, but for now she's all I got. My advice to you would be to shut your computer down every day or two. I think my problem is a result of leaving the computer running for five days straight without even putting it to sleep. I'll probably be getting a lecture from one of their lab-coated, mother-board molesting iGeeks next week about that exact thing. They'll pompously say, "It's like wearing a retainer: on at night, off during the day, except the reverse." Thanks Waldo!