An Explanation Is In Order...

For my lack of both blogging and photos.

The first month I was here in Firenze, my Dell Inspiron 1150, which I've had since my freshman year at IU, crashed. The screen went black, even though the components could be heard engaging (although very quietly, and the fan didn't seem to be working). Two weeks before I left for Italy, my hard drive crashed, so I had just replaced the hard drive on the laptop, and had a feeling this new problem was slightly more serious.

Turns out, the motherboard was toast. So for the past few months, I haven't had a computer of my own, and Brittany's laptop can't upload pictures due to a busted USB port. So all my pictures are on other computers, and it takes upwards of three to four hours to load my full-sized photos on Yahoo. So I haven't uploaded anything.

This lack of computing hardware also may be blamed for my lack of blogging. Granted, we have access to the Net here at school, but I hate blogging on public computers in a crowded room. It's hard to concentrate, and access to the hardware is limited.

I have three more weeks here in Florence, and then I'll be backpacking across Europe for ten days. When I return, I'll promptly order a Apple MacBook Pro laptop (I've had enough of Dells, PCs, and all my friends love their Macs. So I'm going to make the switch, especially now that I can run Windows on a Mac - even though I doubt I will, given the raves about OS X).

That's all for now.