The great debate

So both Ryan and I have laptops from our college years, and considering it's been 3 years since we were in college that makes our computers pretty ancient. Mine has only been allowing me to play Sims and sometimes get online, and that's it, for over a year. Ryan's was fine up until a few months ago when it decided to crash and bring all our pictures saved up from over the years with it.

Well, we thought we fixed the problem until yesterday when Ryan's computer turned to a blue screen and doesn't want to recover. We're trying to reboot it, again, which means we are going to lose all our Christmas pictures, iTunes downloads, and all my Sylvan programs. grrrr.

To take our laptops to Geek Squad and have them try to fix it would be over 200$. Is paying that much money to fix ancient computers worth it? Ryan suggested getting an external hard drive to store everything important on, and then we;ll just have to to reboot the entire computer every few months. That's probably the best option, but as I type we're rebooting the whole thing and it's making Ryan mad. Or, we could just bit the bullet and buy a new computer.

The whole issue is frustrating because the last thing we need to be doing is spending money. Plus, I hate to say this, but I just don't think I could live without a computer. I've thought about it. Even if I quit Sylvan I think I'd still rely on a computer. Facebook and blogging are the only way I keep up with people most of the time. Once Ryleigh's here I know everyone will want to see pics, and what good is a digital camera without a computer?
How sad are we that we cannot live without technology. I feel disappointed in myself that the world wide web is such an important part of my life :-(