Farewell Computer....Ye been good to me

I'm still using the library computer, but I've been looking at new computers. I took my computer to a computer shop and he told me that my computer is too old to fix....(10 years old) and he doesn't even work on computers that old. He said that my computer died....may as well give it a proper burial and buy a brand new baby computer which will probably only last me less than 5 years anyway. He said that computers made today are made cheaper and don't last as long. I was lucky I got 10 years out of my old clunker computer. He can get all my info and files out of it and put it on a data server or something and then he can put it all back into my new computer when I get one. I decided to skip that for now. I'll keep my old computer in case I think of something really important that I absolutely have to get and then maybe I'll have him retrieve it. I put alot of my picture files on CD's already and I have all my pictures printed out anyway. Can't really think of anything important enough to spend $100 on. Plus, I don't want all that crap put back into a new computer. Might be viruses attached to some of those files. So we'll get a new computer and start over....one with a much larger memory capacity.
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My youngest son and his fiance have been looking at houses in the Trenton/Brownstown area which in the area where her family is from and they found one that they like. I went with them and the realtor to look at it over the weekend. It's in a great neighborhood and really nice but it needs a ton of work...it's not bank-owned but the buyers are selling it on a short sale with the bank. The story is that they bought another house and decided to rent this one out and the renters trashed it...so then they hired some fly-by-night guys to gut alot of it out to redo and the guys took out the kitchen, all the flooring throughout, and part of a bathroom and then they took off with their money, never to be seen or heard from again. Of course, it wasn't too smart for them to pay the guys all the money upfront anyway. So now they can't sell it for anywhere near what it's worth, so the bank is agreeing to a short sale. But it's really a sharp house that sits next to a pond with a fountain. Wish I could post a picture of it. So anyways, Tuesday he put an offer on it. There are multiple offers going on it though, and the bank will decide who gets it I guess. He's in no hurry to move in because he still has to try and sell his house so he has time to get it fixed up.....and between the two of them they know people who do various things that will help save them money....like my husband! Maybe hubby will have a winter project to work on now....
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I'm planning on leaving for Caseville by next week for a week. Then I'll come home and get ready to start my annual tax job. Can't believe it's Tax Time already.